http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49677
Summary: GCC 4.6.0 LTO files not compatible with GCC 4.6.1 Product: gcc Version: 4.6.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: lto AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: edwinto...@gmail.com Created attachment 24714 --> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=24714 test.o Using gcc 4.6.1 to link objects compiled with GCC 4.6.0 -flto produces this error: $ gcc test.o -flto -shared lto1: error: bad value (generic) for -mtls-dialect= switch lto-wrapper: /usr/bin/gcc returned 1 exit status /usr/bin/ld: lto-wrapper failed collect2: ld returned 1 exit status There is no -mtls-dialect=generic flag, (and there wasn't either). Instead there is an -mtune=generic flag: COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-flto' '-shared' '-v' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64' I think 4.6.1 confuses -mtune and -mtls-dialect when loading 4.6.0 LTO objects. Maybe the LTO version should be bumped to make these objects incompatible? Fixing this compile error is possible if: - make clean in all the projects that you link in - ccache -C, ccache -c to delete all cached objects from previous version It'd be better if GCC automatically detected that a certain LTO object file is not compatible, and say which one it is. In any case it'd be useful if there would be a -Wlto-mismatch, that would warn if LTO objects were produced with different GCC versions (.comment section should contain full version), or if the LTO objects and current compiler version are different. gcc -v output: Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=/usr/bin/gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.6.1-2' --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/x86_64-linux-gnu --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.6 --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --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 (Debian 4.6.1-2) I'm attaching the test.o file, because it the bug doesn't reproduce if I compile it again from source with 4.6.1, only if I use the object file compiled by 4.6.0.