Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!noatun.mjolner.dk!mail-to-news From: Erik Corry Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Seg fault on x86 (maybe a newbie question) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:07:11 +0100 Organization: Posted to comp.lang.beta by a mailtonews script Lines: 32 Sender: lbr@mjolner.dk Approved: mailtonews@cs.au.dk Message-ID: References: <3BFDC150.3B9BEE82@subraumanomalie.de> <9tl04o$i6c$1@news.net.uni-c.dk> <20011125030601.4248.qmail@noatun.mjolner.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bifrost.mjolner.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1010146050 22822 130.225.4.254 (4 Jan 2002 12:07:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Mailing-List: contact usergroup-help@mjolner.dk; run by ezmlm X-No-Archive: yes Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011125030601.4248.qmail@noatun.mjolner.dk>; from temporalesparadoxon@subraumanomalie.de on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 05:07:08AM +0100 X-Loop: erik@arbat.com X-Original-Message-ID: <20020104130710.B8867@mjolner.dk> Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.lang.beta:13088 Hi Stefan Tomlik, > [Problem with Beta on Linux with newer binutils where the programs > link fine, but crash immediately when you start them] > Erik Corry wrote: > > > We know binutils 2.11.90.0.31-1 (shipped with Debian Woody) > > has the problem, and we know that binutils-2.10.91.0.2-3 > > (shipped in Red Hat 7.1) doesn't have the problem. > > > We are working on finding a solution, and we aim to solve > > this problem before the next release. > > Me too. But anyhow, it would be nice if you could announce new > insights to this this problem here. Thanks, and good night. We found and nailed this problem (it was to do with write permissions in the .text segment of the ELF file, by the way), and the fix will be in the new version, due in about a month. If anyone wants a fix immediately, they can mail me, and I will send a new compiler (1.5Mbytes) which you can beta test for us. In the mean time you can avoid the problem by sticking with a version of Linux (eg. Red Hat 7.1) that doesn't have the new binutils. Yours, -- Erik Corry corry@mjolner.dk