Re: PR16005, avr linker crash on a particular instruction sequence with --relax The last patch wasn't so clever. The contents in fact have already been read, just not cached where relax_delete_bytes expects them. relax_delete_bytes also modifies relocs and syms, so they should be cached too. PR 16005 * elf32-avr.c (elf32_avr_relax_delete_bytes): Revert last change. (elf32_avr_relax_section): Cache contents, relocs and syms before calling relax_delete_bytes.