http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47279
--- Comment #9 from Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com> 2011-01-31 01:40:15 UTC --- I can't duplicate the failure, even using 167488 as host compiler. -Wl,--stats shows: /usr/local/powerpc-linux/bin/ld: linker stubs in 2 groups /usr/local/powerpc-linux/bin/ld: branch 0 /usr/local/powerpc-linux/bin/ld: toc adjust 0 /usr/local/powerpc-linux/bin/ld: long branch 0 /usr/local/powerpc-linux/bin/ld: long toc adj 0 /usr/local/powerpc-linux/bin/ld: plt call 165 so no toc adjusting stubs needed, as expected for -mcmodel=medium. That makes your ld failure even weirder.
