[Bug ld/13561] AIX link failure: RLD address not contained in section

[ka5427-536 at online dot de]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13561

--- Comment #9 from Hans-Georg Thien <ka5427-536 at online dot de> 2012-03-13 
22:00:57 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Created attachment 6146 [details]
> Objects, Sources, Makefile
> 
> We are trying to use 'partial linking' to reduce the size of the resulting
> binary. But it seems that the
> object file produced by the partial link step is somehow corrupted. The AIX
> linker complains with
> 
> 
>   ld: 0711-547 SEVERE ERROR: Object partial.o cannot be processed.
>      RLD address 0x10000364 for section 2 (.data) is
>      not contained in the section.
>   collect2: ld returned 12 exit status
> 
> 
> Source files:
> 
>    address@hidden>  cat main.cpp
> 
>      int main() {
>        return 0;
>      }
> 
> 
>    address@hidden>  cat foo.cpp
> 
>      #include <memory>
> 
>      void foo() {
>        std::auto_ptr<int> p1(new int);
>      }
> 
> 
>    address@hidden>  cat bar.cpp
> 
>      #include <memory>
> 
>      void bar() {
>        std::auto_ptr<int> p1(new int);
>      }
> 
> 
> build steps:
> 
>   g++ -fPIC -o foo.o -c foo.cpp
>   g++ -fPIC -o bar.o -c bar.cpp
> 
>   # now the partial link step ...
>   gnu-ld -r -o partial.o foo.o bar.o
> 
>   g++    -c -o main.o main.cpp
> 
>   # now the final link step fails ...
>   g++ -o demo main.o partial.o
> 
>   # ...  fails with an error message from the AIX linker:
> 
>   ld: 0711-547 SEVERE ERROR: Object partial.o cannot be processed.
>      RLD address 0x10000364 for section 2 (.data) is
>      not contained in the section.
>   collect2: ld returned 12 exit status
> 
> 
> version information:
> 
>   g++ --version
> 
>     g++ (GCC) 4.5.3
> 
>   gnu-ld --version
> 
>     GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22.51.20111212
> 
>   AIX Linker:  ld -V
> 
>     ld: LD 1.65.2.6 (2/24/09)
> 
>   AIX OS: oslevel -s
> 
>     5300-03-CSP-0000

[update]
it turned out that this issue occurs whenever the same non-default constructor
is used in two separate compilation units.

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