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

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

--- Comment #29 from Paul Pryor <ppryor63 at gmail dot com> 2011-05-17 23:49:44 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #28)
> (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.

If you would look at comment #2, that is what I did.