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Subject: [Bug target/46072] AIX linker chokes on debug info for uninitialized static variables
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46072

--- Comment #1 from Daniel Richard G. <skunk at iskunk dot org> 2010-10-19 21:51:44 UTC ---
I'd like to add: We've been able to work around this issue in our C codebase
simply by ensuring that every static variable is initialized with a value. The
bug behavior makes the uninitialized ones easy to track down as a matter of
course.

However, we can't do the same for our C++ codebase. There is at least one
static declaration (std::__ioinit) in the C++ header files that we can't touch,
so unless we turn off debug information altogether, there's not much of a way
to avoid the linker error.