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0000583mercuryBugpublic2026-03-31 14:162026-04-01 16:52
Reporterwangp 
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PrioritynormalSeveritycrashReproducibilityalways
StatusnewResolutionopen 
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Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0000583: crash in LLDS .par grades
DescriptionHere are some results of trying to bootcheck the asm_fast.par.gc grade on various Linux distributions. All tests were performed in a container on the same Linux host kernel, on a x86-64 machine.

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Debian 12
  GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40
  gcc version 12.2.0 (Debian 12.2.0-14+deb12u1)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - ok

Debian 13
  GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.44
  gcc version 14.2.0 (Debian 14.2.0-19)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - ok

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Ubuntu 20.04
  GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34
  gcc version 9.4.0 (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.2)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - ok

Ubuntu 22.04
  GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.38
  gcc version 11.4.0 (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04.3)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - ok

Ubuntu 24.04
  GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.42
  gcc version 11.5.0 (Ubuntu 11.5.0-1ubuntu1~24.04.1)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - building of stage 3 dependencies not successful
  gcc version 12.4.0 (Ubuntu 12.4.0-2ubuntu1~24.04.1)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - building of stage 3 dependencies not successful
  gcc version 13.3.0 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04.1) - default
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - building of stage 3 dependencies not successful
  gcc version 14.2.0 (Ubuntu 14.2.0-4ubuntu2~24.04.1)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - building of stage 3 dependencies not successful

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Alpine Linux 3.20
  GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.42
  gcc version 13.2.1 20240309 (Alpine 13.2.1_git20240309)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - ok

Alpine Linux 3.22
  GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.44
  gcc version 14.2.0 (Alpine 14.2.0)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - ok

Alpine Linux 3.23
  GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.45.1
  gcc version 15.2.0 (Alpine 15.2.0)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - ok

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AlmaLinux 9
  GNU ld version 2.35.2-67.el9_7.1
  gcc version 11.5.0 20240719 (Red Hat 11.5.0-11) (GCC)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - ok

AlmaLinux 10
  GNU ld version 2.41-58.el10_1.2.alma.1
  gcc version 14.3.1 20250617 (Red Hat 14.3.1-2) (GCC) - default
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - building of stage 3 dependencies not successful
  gcc version 15.1.1 20250521 (Red Hat 15.1.1-2) (GCC)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - building of stage 3 dependencies not successful

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Fedora 43
  GNU ld version 2.45.1-4.fc43
  gcc version 14.3.1 20250808 (Red Hat 14.3.1-1) (GCC)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - ok
  gcc version 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7) (GCC) - default
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - ok

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OpenSuSE Leap 15.6
  GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.45.0.20251103-150100757
  gcc version 7.5.0 (SUSE Linux)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - ok

OpenSuSE Tumbleweed
  GNU ld (GNU Binutils; openSUSE Tumbleweed) 2.45.0.20251103-2
  gcc version 15.2.1 20260202 (SUSE Linux)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - building of stage 3 dependencies not successful

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Void Linux
  GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.44
  gcc version 14.2.1 20250405 (GCC)
    - mercury-srcdist-rotd-2026-03-19 - ok

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I'm not sure what conclusions we can draw. The problem appears to be something particular to a distribution, rather than an issue with certain gcc or binutils versions. (But keeping in mind that distributions will have applied their own patches to those software packages.)
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2026-03-31 14:16wangpNew Issue
2026-04-01 16:52wangpSeverityminor => crash
2026-04-01 16:52wangpReproducibilitysometimes => always