ld dumps core on siginal 11 - segfault

[Daniel Rudy]

When I try to link a

strata:/home/dr2867/c/modules 1026 $$$ ->as --version
GNU assembler 2.15 [FreeBSD] 2004-05-23
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `i386-obrien-freebsd'.
strata:/home/dr2867/c/modules 1027 $$$ ->gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

strata:/home/dr2867/c/modules 1028 $$$ ->ld --version
GNU ld version 2.15 [FreeBSD] 2004-05-23
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
strata:/home/dr2867/c/modules 1029 $$$ ->uname -a
FreeBSD strata.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.org 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0:
Thu Feb  8 11:00:11 PST 2007     address@hidden
:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STRATA  i386
strata:/home/dr2867/c/modules 1030 $$$ ->

strata:/home/dr2867/c/modules 1032 $$$ ->gcc -N -Ttext 0x7c00
-Wl,-S,--oformat,binary -o cmbr cmbr.s
gcc: Internal error: Segmentation fault: 11 (program ld)
Please submit a full bug report.
See <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions.


strata:/home/dr2867/c/modules 1033 $$$ ->cat cmbr.s

#
# Custom USB Master Boot Record
#
# All this does is print a message and hangs
# the computer.
#
# **** WARNING ****
# Watch out for software engineers with a sense
# of humor.  ;-)
#


                .set LOAD, 0x7c00       # Load Address
                .set STACK, 0x7b00      # Stack Address
                .set PTOFF, 0x1be       # Partition Table Offset
                .set MAGIC, 0xaa55      # Magic Code for Bootable Sector
                .global main            # Entry Point
                .code16

# set the segment registers for flat memory access

# Set the segment registers for our operations
main:           cld                     # String Operations Increment
                xorw %ax, %ax           # Zero AX
                movw %ax, %es           #   and copy it to ES reg
                movw %ax, %ds           #   then the DS reg
                movw %ax, %ss           #   and SS reg too
                movw $STACK, %sp        # Set the stack pointer

set_msg:        movw $msg_nb, %si       # Set the message to display

# Display a message on the console
disp_msg:       lodsb
                testb %al, %al
                jz hang_system
                movw $0x0007, %bx
                movb $0x0e, %ah
                int $0x10
                jmp disp_msg

# Hang the system
hang_system:    jmp hang_system


msg_nb:         .asciz "Device not bootable"

                .org PTOFF-1, 0x90
flags:          .byte 0x00
partbl:         .fill 0x10, 0x4, 0x00
                .word MAGIC







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