http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47274
--- Comment #11 from Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-01-17 16:15:10 UTC --- (In reply to comment #10) > The GNU linker made > > extern int abs_called; > > prevailing (it's a common, probably works with -fno-common?) instead of > > int abs_called = 0; > > thus I think this is a bug in the GNU linker (we remove the zero initializer > I think, so maybe out LTO symtab we create is slightly odd). Which means you can also try -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss