http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49286
Summary: LTO incompatible with PIC and inline asm Product: gcc Version: 4.6.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: lto AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: emil.langr...@gmx.de Created attachment 24435 --> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=24435 Minimal example I have a library which needs to be compiled as PIC (amd64). It has different parts which cannot be written in C and thus uses inline assembly. Other parts can benefit extremely by using LTO (~10% faster and ~10% size reduction). By default it is compiled using something like that: $ gcc -g -O2 -fPIC -DPIC -o test.o -c test.c $ gcc -fPIC -shared test.o -o test.so This works perfectly. It will produce an PIC error when compiling it with LTO: $ gcc -flto -g -O2 -fPIC -DPIC -o test.o -c test.c $ gcc -flto -g -O2 -fPIC -DPIC -shared test.o -o test.so /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccMYQCew.ltrans0.ltrans.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against undefined symbol `evil_long' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status To the version I use: Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.6.0-11' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,go --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.6 --enable-shared --enable-multiarch --with-multiarch-defaults=x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.6 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.6.1 20110604 (prerelease) (Debian 4.6.0-11) COMPILER_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/ LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../../lib/:/lib/../lib/:/usr/lib/../lib/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../:/lib/:/usr/lib/ COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/collect2 --build-id --no-add-needed --eh-frame-hdr -m elf_x86_64 --hash-style=both -dynamic-linker /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../../lib/crt1.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../../lib/crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/crtbegin.o -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../../lib -L/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../.. --version -lgcc --as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed -lc -lgcc --as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/crtend.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../../lib/crtn.o collect2 version 4.6.1 20110604 (prerelease) (x86-64 Linux/ELF) /usr/bin/ld --build-id --no-add-needed --eh-frame-hdr -m elf_x86_64 --hash-style=both -dynamic-linker /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../../lib/crt1.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../../lib/crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/crtbegin.o -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../../lib -L/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../.. --version -lgcc --as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed -lc -lgcc --as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/crtend.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../../lib/crtn.o GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.21.51.20110523 Copyright 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a later version. This program has absolutely no warranty