On Wed, 8 March 2006 12:44:03 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
In message 20060308112603.GA1116@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de you wrote:
make[1]: *** [hello_world] Segmentation fault
Your tool crashes with a segmentation fault. That's a tolchain problem. Get yourself working tools and forget about all this trouble.
Not entirely a toolchain problem. Here is a patch that fixes the
It is entirely a toolchain problem. No matter what input you feed into it, the linker (like any other program) must NEVER crash with a segmentation fault. There is no excuse for such a bug.
Yes, sure. The "Hammer" compiler has its issues, it has bitten me before and will likely bite me again. The sad fact remains that I'm forced to work with it, after all.
The world is not perfect and we have to deal with it. And I'd claim that compilers aren't perfect and programs have to deal with it as well, within reason. Would it be unreasonable to have a workaround for this problem in U-Boot?
Jörn