current_status: As suggested by Ulrich Weigand use readelf that reports warning message (1) about DW_FORM_strp that is associated to form processed by debugedit at time of segfault (2) Then identify the related object ecp_nistp224.o (3) source of these warnings. The related C file is compiled without any warning (4) Need to continue investigation from here === (1) [michel@twppc64le:~/work/Base:System/openssl] $readelf -wi /mnt/disk3/build-root/standard-ppc64le/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/openssl-1.0.2c-0.ppc64le/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 >/dev/null readelf: Warning: DW_FORM_strp offset too big: d000012 readelf: Warning: DW_FORM_strp offset too big: d690287 readelf: Warning: DW_FORM_strp offset too big: 83102000 readelf: Warning: DW_FORM_strp offset too big: 89010000 readelf: Warning: DIE at offset 77ff4 refers to abbreviation number 112 which does not exist === (2) else if ((t->tag == DW_TAG_compile_unit || t->tag == DW_TAG_partial_unit) && t->attr[i].attr == DW_AT_name && form == DW_FORM_strp && debug_sections[DEBUG_STR].data) { char *name; name = (char *) debug_sections[DEBUG_STR].data + do_read_32_relocated (ptr); if (*name == '/' && comp_dir == NULL) <=== line 890 { === (3) [michel@twppc64le:~/work/Base:System/openssl] $readelf -wi /mnt/disk3/build-root/standard-ppc64le/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/openssl-1.0.2c/crypto/ec/ecp_nistp224.o >/dev/null readelf: Warning: DW_FORM_strp offset too big: d000012 readelf: Warning: DW_FORM_strp offset too big: d690287 readelf: Warning: DW_FORM_strp offset too big: 2092000 readelf: Warning: DW_FORM_strp offset too big: 89010000 readelf: Warning: DIE at offset 1283 refers to abbreviation number 112 which does not exist === === (4) [ 84s] gcc -I.. -I../.. -I../modes -I../asn1 -I../evp -I../../include -fPIC -DOPENSSL_PIC -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -m64 -DL_ENDIAN -O3 -Wall -fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -O3 -std=gnu99 -Wa,--noexecstack -fno-common -DTERMIO -DPURIFY -DSSL_FORBID_ENULL -D_GNU_SOURCE -DOPENSSL_NO_BUF_FREELISTS -Wall -Wa,--noexecstack -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -c -o ecp_nistp224.o ecp_nistp224.c ===