[Bug gold/14007] gold crashes during final Firefox's libxul link with clang

[markus at trippelsdorf dot de]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14007

--- Comment #8 from Markus Trippelsdorf <markus at trippelsdorf dot de> 
2012-04-22 21:36:35 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> 
> That said, I actually looked at the backtrace, and I see this:
> 
> 
> #3  0x0000000000571ee1 in gold::Symbol_table::add_from_pluginobj<64, false>
> (this=0x7fffffff7f60, obj=0x3afaef90, name=0x0, ver=0x0, 
>     sym=0x7fffffff7940) at
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-9999/work/binutils/gold/symtab.cc:1340
> #4  0x0000000000534f80 in gold::Sized_pluginobj<64, false>::do_add_symbols
> (this=0x3afaef90, symtab=0x7fffffff7f60, layout=0x7fffffff81c0)
>     at
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-9999/work/binutils/gold/plugin.cc:1074
> 
> The fact that name == NULL in the call to add_from_pluginobj very strongly
> suggests that this is a bug in the plugin.  The plugin is trying to add a
> symbol with a NULL name.  That makes no sense and is leading directly to the
> crash.

Indeed. All I was trying to suggest is that perhaps there is a possibility for
a better response, besides crashing, when gold is fed with garbage from an
plugin.

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