http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55693
Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |patrick.marlier at gmail | |dot com --- Comment #20 from Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-01-23 04:34:26 UTC --- crttme.o comes from libgcc/config/darwin-crt-tm.c, which has: /* Provide dummy functions to satisfy linkage for versions of the Darwin tool-chain that that can't handle undefined weak refs at the link stage. ??? Define these dummy functions only when !HAVE_ELF_STYLE_WEAKREF. */ extern void *__cxa_allocate_exception (size_t) WEAK; ... ... void *__cxa_allocate_exception (size_t s UNUSED) { return NULL; } This looks like the NULL returning __cxa_allocate_exception that is causing all this grief, and came from Patrick Marlier and Iain Sandoe's patch here: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-02/msg00851.html Again, I'm a Darwin wimp. Anyone care to comment?