[Bug ld/28037] Semireproducible bug

[volker.weissmann at gmx dot de]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28037

--- Comment #3 from Volker Weißmann <volker.weissmann at gmx dot de> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #1)
> (In reply to Volker Weißmann from comment #0)
> Hi Volker,
> 
> > sometimes (1 in 20 times maybe) 
> 
> A bug that does not happemn reliably is very hard to track down.  The most
> common cause for such bugs are memory issues - either using uninitialised
> memory or using freed memory or the like.  Are you able to run your tests
> in an environment with additional memory debugging enabled ?  For example
> by using valgrind, or setting the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable ?
> 
> Another possibility is a hardware problem.  If you have a faulty memory 
> bank for example then that might explain the problem.  Are you able to
> reproduce the failure on another machine ?
> 
> 
> > = note: /usr/local/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.34.50.20200328
> 
> This is not an official binutils release.  Nor is it the latest release.
> 
> Are you able to run your tests using the newest binutils (2.36.1) ?
> 
> 
> > internal
> > error, aborting at merge.c:939 in _bfd_merged_section_offset
> 
> This error suggests that the issue might be due to uninitialised memory.
> There is a comment just before line 939 which says:
> 
>       /* This should only happen if somebody points into the padding
>        after a NUL character but before next entity.  */
>       if (*p)
>       abort ();
>  
> So the implication is that 'p' is pointing into "padding" of some kind
> and padding can often contain random bytes.  Still without more information
> to go on, it is hard to make any further progress.
> 
> Cheers
>   Nick

First of all sorry, that I only see your comment two years later.

Second, this bug probably just occured because my installation was broken:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/86734#issuecomment-1493337645

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