https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71767
--- Comment #24 from Dominique d'Humieres <dominiq at lps dot ens.fr> --- The patch in comment 20 (and SDK 10.9) causes the failures of the tests gcc.dg/torture/darwin-cfstring-3.c and g++.dg/torture/darwin-cfstring-3.C with -m32, see https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2016-09/msg02290.html. These failures are due to the fact that lC is now emitted instead of LC and are silenced with the following patch --- ../_clean/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/torture/darwin-cfstring-3.c 2014-05-10 23:16:48.000000000 +0200 +++ gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/torture/darwin-cfstring-3.c 2016-09-24 17:03:58.000000000 +0200 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ void foo(void) { s0 = s1; } -/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "\\.long\[ \\t\]+___CFConstantStringClassReference\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+1992\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+LC.*\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+4\n" { target { *-*-darwin* && { ! lp64 } } } } } */ -/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "\\.long\[ \\t\]+___CFConstantStringClassReference\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+1992\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+LC.*\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+10\n" { target { *-*-darwin* && { ! lp64 } } } } } */ +/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "\\.long\[ \\t\]+___CFConstantStringClassReference\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+1992\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+\[lL\]C.*\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+4\n" { target { *-*-darwin* && { ! lp64 } } } } } */ +/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "\\.long\[ \\t\]+___CFConstantStringClassReference\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+1992\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+\[lL\]C.*\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+10\n" { target { *-*-darwin* && { ! lp64 } } } } } */ /* { dg-final { scan-assembler ".quad\t___CFConstantStringClassReference\n\t.long\t1992\n\t.space 4\n\t.quad\t.*\n\t.quad\t4\n" { target { *-*-darwin* && { lp64 } } } } } */ /* { dg-final { scan-assembler ".quad\t___CFConstantStringClassReference\n\t.long\t1992\n\t.space 4\n\t.quad\t.*\n\t.quad\t10\n" { target { *-*-darwin* && { lp64 } } } } } */ --- ../_clean/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/torture/darwin-cfstring-3.C 2014-05-10 23:18:01.000000000 +0200 +++ gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/torture/darwin-cfstring-3.C 2016-09-24 17:02:39.000000000 +0200 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ void foo(void) { s0 = s1; } -/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "\\.long\[ \\t\]+___CFConstantStringClassReference\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+1992\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+LC.*\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+4\n" { target { *-*-darwin* && { ! lp64 } } } } } */ -/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "\\.long\[ \\t\]+___CFConstantStringClassReference\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+1992\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+LC.*\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+10\n" { target { *-*-darwin* && { ! lp64 } } } } } */ +/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "\\.long\[ \\t\]+___CFConstantStringClassReference\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+1992\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+\[lL\]C.*\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+4\n" { target { *-*-darwin* && { ! lp64 } } } } } */ +/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "\\.long\[ \\t\]+___CFConstantStringClassReference\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+1992\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+\[lL\]C.*\n\[ \\t\]*\\.long\[ \\t\]+10\n" { target { *-*-darwin* && { ! lp64 } } } } } */ /* { dg-final { scan-assembler ".quad\t___CFConstantStringClassReference\n\t.long\t1992\n\t.space 4\n\t.quad\t.*\n\t.quad\t4\n" { target { *-*-darwin* && { lp64 } } } } } */ /* { dg-final { scan-assembler ".quad\t___CFConstantStringClassReference\n\t.long\t1992\n\t.space 4\n\t.quad\t.*\n\t.quad\t10\n" { target { *-*-darwin* && { lp64 } } } } } */ I don't know if the replacement of LC with lC is really intended and if yes, a better fix would be to use "-mtarget-linker 85.2".