> In the ld man page, I could find help for option +nosectionmerge.
>            +nosectionmerge
>                           With the -r option, allow procedures to be
>                           positioned independently.  The default is to merge
>                           all procedures into a single section.
> [This is what I have in my man page]
> 
> If default is merge, do we really need to use option +sectionmerge in
> the LD flags?

Yes. Despite what manual page says, it didn't do the sectionmerge (which
was resulting in crash upon startup). So do patch.

> has the behavior changed in any patch recently?
> What is the impact if i remove it?

Who can possibly answer these questions? Only HP, so talk to them. The
only thing known experimentally is that B.12.56 (see with ld -V) works,
while B.12.49 doesn't.

> I could not find any help for zlinux. Any help is much appreciated.

zLinux is not explicitly validated, it should be possible to resort for
./config no-asm.
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