On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:50:17AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
Given this, it seems like it's got to be a linker bug. Since
this is
effectively a new regression, I'd say you should pursue getting the linker
bug fixed. If there is some good reason that can't get resolved failry
quickly, then we could add a known-bug exception for --gnu-ld mode.
I don't fully understand why/what is happening, but I filed a bug report
against binutils ld with a reproducer that triggers the same thing with
gcc < 4.7.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13621
Cheers,
Mark