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Bug 1050 - Empty archive crashes linker
Summary: Empty archive crashes linker
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: libraries
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Linker (show other bugs)
Version: trunk
Hardware: All All
: P normal
Assignee: Unassigned LLVM Bugs
URL:
Keywords: compile-fail
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-12-15 13:15 PST by Andrew Lenharth
Modified: 2010-02-22 12:48 PST (History)
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empty archive (8 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2006-12-15 13:17 PST, Andrew Lenharth 		Details
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Description Andrew Lenharth 2006-12-15 13:15:33 PST 
if an archive is empty, the linker (gccld in this case) crashes.  It should
manage to procede.
Comment 1 Andrew Lenharth 2006-12-15 13:17:06 PST 
Created attachment 517 [details]
empty archive

reproduce with:
gccld -o /dev/null built-in.o
Comment 2 Reid Spencer 2006-12-15 13:45:52 PST 
Several asserts in the Archive Library should have been producing error messages
but weren't. This is now fixed with these patches:

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20061211/041458.html