PR24981, Hit assertion failure in ld/ldlang.c:7504
This fixes a problem with commit 128bf1fe608, a patch I made
2019-08-06. Apparently it is possible to trigger the assertion I
added during an LTO bootstrap, something I haven't reproduced.
However, I did find a case triggered by an odd linker script feature
that allows a file to be loaded from the script without specifying
that file on the command line. Regarding input sections:
"When you use a file name which is not an archive:file specifier
and does not contain any wild card characters, the linker will
first see if you also specified the file name on the linker command
line or in an INPUT command. If you did not, the linker will
attempt to open the file as an input file, as though it appeared on
the command line."
So putting
.foo : { foo.a(*) }
into a script supposedly extracts foo.a into .foo. Except it doesn't,
since this feature is meant for object files only. Well anyway,
assuming --whole-archive was given on the command line, foo.a contains
a -flto object and no other objects involved were -flto then we'll hit
the assert due to files added like foo.a here *not* having their input
statement put on the general statement list. Why these are not put on
the statement list isn't obvious but it has been that way since commit
193c5f93a17 in 1994.
PR 24981
* ldlang.c (lang_process): Remove assertion. Comment.
2 files changed
