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.