Looking through old bug tickets ... This sounds like it was rather a bug in your toolchain ... is it still reproducible with a newer version of your Linux distro and the latest version of QEMU?
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1787002 Title: disas/i386.c compile error Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: QEMU Version: 2.12.1, 3.0.0-rc4 Compiling with GCC 8.2.0 System: Plop Linux, 32 bit Error: CC disas/i386.o /tmp/ccK8tHRs.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccK8tHRs.s:53353: Error: can't resolve `L0' {*ABS* section} - `obuf' {.bss section} The problematic line is in 'disas/i386.c' in the function 'INVLPG_Fixup (int bytemode, int sizeflag)': strcpy (obuf + strlen (obuf) - 6, alt); If I comment out this line, then compiling works without problems. The error comes only on 32 bit. On 64 bit, compiling works without problems. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1787002/+subscriptions