Weak symbol support on powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0 (binutils 2.15)

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Michael,

> $ ld -r gas.o
> ld: 0711-562 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol table entry 6 in object gas.o:
>         An auxiliary symbol table entry is required for a
>         C_EXT or C_HIDEXT entry.

Bummer - this is a bit beyond me.  Do you have any experience in this area ?

> While GNU ld doesn't complain here, it cannot link trivial C++ code
> either (not sure if this is related?):
> 
> $ gcc -xc++ -
> class C
> {
>   public: C() {};
> };
> 
> int main()
> {
>   C c;
> }
> ^D
> /usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.4.1/../../../../powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/bin/ld: /tmp/cczJxxzl.o: reloc .data:0 not in csect
> /tmp/cczJxxzl.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Hmm, I think that this might be a different problem.  I suspect that the 
problems are related in as much as support for the AIX 5.2 environment 
has not been tested for a long time and bit-rot has probably set in.

Cheers
   Nick