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* Re: collect2: ld returned 12 exit status
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@ 2008-07-24 17:27 ` David Edelsohn
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From: David Edelsohn @ 2008-07-24 17:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Shlom Marom, shlomym; +Cc: gcc-help

> I'm trying to compile and link a product that was already compiled and
> linked successfully before, on AIX5.3 with gcc3.4.6, but I got the
> following link err:
> "collect2: ld returned 12 exit status"

> Pls note that this happens to me only when not using  the strip flag
> (-s) since I need the symbols for debugging...
> => I can link only the release version.

	There are other error message that you are not reporting, but I
suspect the problem is TOC overflow.  You can try compiling the program
with -mminimal-toc GCC option or adding -Wl,-bbigtoc to the link
commandline.

David


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