1474185 - gcc 8: Error: can't resolve `.text.unlikely' {.text.unlikely section}

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Infrastructure :: Source Code Analysis, defect)

Description

[:aceman]

Trying to compile mozilla-central with Gcc 8.1.1 on Linux produces this error at multiple places:

{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:169100: Error: can't resolve `.text.unlikely' {.text.unlikely section} - `.LVL676' {.text section}
{standard input}:170794: Error: can't resolve `.text.unlikely' {.text.unlikely section} - `.LVL1171' {.text section}
{standard input}:170806: Error: can't resolve `.text.unlikely' {.text.unlikely section} - `.LVL1171' {.text section}
gmake[4]: *** [mozilla/config/rules.mk:1050: Library.o] Error 1

{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:1099823: Error: can't resolve `.text.unlikely' {.text.unlikely section} - `.LVL7264' {.text section}
{standard input}:1150512: Error: can't resolve `.text.unlikely' {.text.unlikely section} - `.LVL5991' {.text section}
{standard input}:1221392: Error: can't resolve `.text.unlikely' {.text.unlikely section} - `.LVL758' {.text section}
{standard input}:1238637: Error: can't resolve `.text.unlikely' {.text.unlikely section} - `.LVL3635' {.text section}
gmake[4]: *** [mozilla/config/rules.mk:1050: Array.o] Error 1

Thus the compilation will fail unsuccessfully.

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

afaik, this isn't happening anymore

If it does, please share more information about your system (distro, linker version, etc)