[Bug target/46072] AIX linker chokes on debug info for uninitialized static variables

[skunk at iskunk dot org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46072

--- Comment #28 from Daniel Richard G. <skunk at iskunk dot org> 2011-05-17 18:12:26 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #25)
> An upgrade to the AIX assembler has introduced a bug that can generate invalid
> object files.  The is an AIX bug, not a GCC bug.

I'm not yet convinced that this is the case. It could well be that the
assembler (or linker) is being more strict in how it interprets code.

Does anyone here have the IBM XL compiler? It would be interesting to compare
the assembly that it produces (I presume it can be made to generate assembly
even if it normally emits object code directly) for the minimal test case to
GCC's.