[13513] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.7Q: sunsoft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Diane Delgado)
Wed May 17 15:27:49 1995
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 15:27:38 EDT
From: Diane Delgado <delgado@MIT.EDU>
System name: green-acres
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7Q
Display type: cgthree
What's wrong:
Sometimes the sunsoft compilation tools (C) will generate object files which
*sometimes* cause errors during the link phase:
ld: elf error: file /mit/athena-backup/src/SunOS/obj/ui/master_xdr.o: elf_strptr: Request error: no string table
As, I've said *sometimes* ld will catch these errors but at other times it
will not. If the bad .o file does not cause an ld error, then a an
executable is generated which executes fine; however if one runs this
executable under dbx, it will cause dbx to intermittently core dump.
By the way, the source, object and executable files I am generating
reside on AFS which could also play a role in this.
What should have happened:
Sunsoft tools should be generating valid object files.
