http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48086
--- Comment #9 from Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-03-13 10:07:50 UTC --- my +1 generally to comment #8, We are (re)-discussing with the Apple developer for ld (obviously that can't be in this forum). IMO, 'as' is trying to check "if someone tries to write a section > 255 into the symbol n_sect field" which we won't do. It is just a little to simplistic to do this by a simple count of sections. The Apple developers are really helpful guys - and I'm sure we'll get an answer soon (I don't think we need to be paranoid, I suspect an oversight rather than a release plan... ;-) ). containerizing the LTO stuff would probably be much easier now that we have simple-object in libiberty --- but it doesn't seem to be a last-minute kinda job - better left for stage 1 and back-ported for 4.6.1 (my £0.02).
