Re: Mostly offline at home; ext2fs file corruption bug?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Thomas Schwinge, le Sat 11 Jun 2011 19:26:33 +0200, a écrit :
> That is, the files' content appears once (regularely), and then the
> same again.  Has someone ever seen something like that before?

I haven't.

> Samuel: I think I know what's going on w.r.t. the GNU/Linux ABI field in
> certain .o files: have a look at ELFOSABI_LINUX getting set as soon as
> there are symbols with STT_GNU_IFUNC type or STB_GNU_UNIQUE binding in
> Git commit 51b2f560ad035dffad3371093f8e5c80608d196c.  Of course, this
> would've been wrong already before for IFUNC, but I guess STB_GNU_UNIQUE
> is emitted more frequently with modern GCC?  I'll try to continue with
> looking at this.

It's most probably the culprit. I've digged in the assembly file
produced by c++, and it's a gnu_unique keyword which triggers the issue.
I'm currently building/uploading a fixed binutils and reporting to doko.

What about a release these days, along the DNF fever?

Samuel