https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97787
--- Comment #13 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Xi Ruoyao from comment #9) > (In reply to rguent...@suse.de from comment #8) > > > I guess it is because -mxgot is supposed to be handled by the assembler? > > I see > > > > %{mgp32} %{mgp64} %{march=*} %{mxgot:-xgot} \ > > > > in ASM_SPEC. I guess this doesn't make it to COLLECT_AS_OPTIONS > > and eventually makes it dropped from COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS as well. > > I don't think so. > > I can reproduce this issue compiling spidermonkey (js interpreter) from > firefox-78 ESR. I'm using "-pipe" so I can easily find the parameters > passed to "as", using "ps -aux". "-xgot" is passed correctly. > > > Can you attach the full output of compiling & linking with -v added? ^^^ (output aka output on the console) I think the issue should be visible from a simple hello world compiled with LTO and -mxgot (aka not using -xgot in the approproate places in the end, not failing the link in the end).