http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48423
Summary: crash when using lto, linker plugin with bfd ld Product: gcc Version: 4.6.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: critical Priority: P3 Component: lto AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: vincenzo.innoce...@cern.ch I'm continuing my experiments with lto, linker-plugins and visibility. I've now built a simple example of a typical plugin architecture (similar to the one in use in my project) with a base class in one library and derived classes in run-time loadable libraries. I get "ld" warnings and a crash in the attached examples when linking with ld -v GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.21 it compiles, links and runs fine with ld -v GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.21) 1.10 just download it and source makeLinux ld: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol `typeinfo for Base' are not defined ld: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol `typeinfo for Base' are not defined and then gdb exFactory GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1 ... Get D Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0000000000401826 in get (c=<value optimized out>) at exFactory.cpp:27 27 (*bp).hi(); (gdb) where #0 0x0000000000401826 in get (c=<value optimized out>) at exFactory.cpp:27 #1 0x0000000000401984 in main () at exFactory.cpp:39 one can activate the construction of a static object in the library that actually causes the crash to see it crashing even in the library itself source makeLinux -DSHELLO ld: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol `typeinfo for Base' are not defined ld: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol `typeinfo for Base' are not defined [vinavx0] ~/w1/ltoCrash $ gdb exFactory Get D break point hook hello D who in D Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff78cce68 in D::who (this=<value optimized out>, b=...) at Base.h:19 19 return ii(); (gdb) where #0 0x00007ffff78cce68 in D::who (this=<value optimized out>, b=...) at Base.h:19 #1 0x00007ffff78cd150 in __static_initialization_and_destruction_0 () at helloD.cc:17 #2 global constructors keyed to 65535_0_ccyFVIjt.o () at helloD.cc:25 #3 0x00007ffff78ccb85 in __do_global_ctors_aux () from ./plugD.so #4 0x00007ffff78cc8fb in _init () from ./plugD.so #5 0x0000003f00000000 in ?? () #6 0x0000003ff520e3b5 in _dl_init_internal () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 #7 0x0000003ff5212b21 in dl_open_worker () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 #8 0x0000003ff520e016 in _dl_catch_error () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 #9 0x0000003ff521236a in _dl_open () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 #10 0x0000003ff5a00f66 in dlopen_doit () from /lib64/libdl.so.2 #11 0x0000003ff520e016 in _dl_catch_error () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 #12 0x0000003ff5a0129c in _dlerror_run () from /lib64/libdl.so.2 #13 0x0000003ff5a00ee1 in dlopen@@GLIBC_2.2.5 () from /lib64/libdl.so.2 #14 0x00000000004017f1 in magic (c=...) at exFactory.cpp:12 #15 get (c=...) at exFactory.cpp:23 #16 0x0000000000401984 in main () at exFactory.cpp:39 (one can use "bhook" to set a breakpoint just before this crash) as the program runs w/o errors when linked with gold I'm not sure on which side (gcc or binutil) the problem is. Any hint even on how to work-around this issue would be appreciated as gold, at the moment, is also not fully usable with linker-plugins as it produces clobbered stacktrace (see bug http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48384)