https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65780
--- Comment #2 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> --- Please provide the output of "readelf -sW a.o" to verify if optopt is COMMON: [hjl@gnu-6 gcc]$ ./xgcc -B./ -O2 -c /tmp/a.c [hjl@gnu-6 gcc]$ readelf -sW a.o Symbol table '.symtab' contains 12 entries: Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name 0: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND 1: 0000000000000000 0 FILE LOCAL DEFAULT ABS a.c 2: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 1 3: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 2 4: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 3 5: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 4 6: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 5 7: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 8 8: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 9 9: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 7 10: 0000000000000000 13 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 5 main 11: 0000000000000004 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT COM optopt [hjl@gnu-6 gcc]$