Messages in this thread | | | From | (Andreas Schwab) | Subject | Re: Exception during kernel compile? | Date | 07 Feb 1997 11:37:22 +0100 |
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Murple <btherl@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
|> Now that you mention it, I was compiling the kernel when the last exception |> happened.. The rest fit into this pattern too. I took a closer look, and the |> exception occurs during the following:
|> ar rcs cdrom.a
|> This creates an 8 byte file with '!<arch>' in it. I'm using binutils 2.7.0.3, |> gcc 2.7.2 and the exceptions began with either kernel 2.1.23 or 24, and are |> still here in 25. None of the files in the directory ar is run in are compiled |> during 'make', but cdrom.o is compiled as a module. Something is awry..
This is a bug in binutils, ar calls open with a NULL name. Fixed in 2.7.0.8 at least. -- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
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