G++ Link-time optimisation on Mac - compiler/linker bug? - c++

I have a project that uses OpenMP (which doesn't seem to be available in the current OS X default clang setup) but would also like to use LTO. I have sections of the code in SIMD intrinsics using SSE4 and found that G++ was unable to link this code without using the OS X provided clang linker (flag -Wa,-q). G++ 5.10 is installed via Homebrew and compiled with without multilib.
I can compile with LTO using clang but then I lose the parallel 'for's, when I add -flto to G++ I get:
lto1: internal compiler error: in add_symbol_to_partition_1, at lto/lto-partition.c:211
lto1: internal compiler error: Abort trap: 6
g++-5: internal compiler error: Abort trap: 6 (program lto1)
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues> for instructions.
lto-wrapper: fatal error: g++-5 returned 4 exit status
compilation terminated.
collect2: fatal error: lto-wrapper returned 1 exit status
compilation terminated.
This also occurs without -Wa,-q if I remove the intrinsics so that it can compile the remaining code.
I have tried a simple two file program that compiles fine with LTO in G++ so I'm not sure what the problem is. Whilst LTO doesn't seem to make a huge amount of difference to this code, in clang I've measured about 7% which is non-negligible as the program takes a while to run.
I know the error says to submit a bug report but I don't want to unless I know it's not just my own stupidity.
Does anyone have experience of this sort of problem, or have I actually run into a compiler bug? (haven't come across one before to my knowledge)
Cheers!

Compilers are never supposed to report ICEs. It's a bug. It may already be a reported bug, but it is most certainly a bug.

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(Clang Error) compilation error: ld: library not found for -lcrt0.o. Any ideas?

The full terminal output is as follows:
>g++ -std=c++98 -static mainP1.o -o mainP1
>
>ld: library not found for -lcrt0.o
>
>clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
>
>make: *** [mainP1] Error 1
I'm on a 2020 MacBook Pro with an intel CPU using Visual Studio Code. When I write basic OOP programs in C++ it compiles fine without any clang errors. However, when working with big OOP programs with multiple classes inheriting from a base class I would get this error.
I tried searching online for solutions, but no solution or explanation was found. I double-checked my makefile to ensure I was not linking classes incorrectly.
I thought maybe I should just dual-boot with UBUNTU Linux to avoid this weird XCODE issue I was encountering with clang, but that was also a fruitless endeavor.
The problem was my compiler path in Visual Studio Code.
I changed it to clang++, and now all my code compiles and executes without any problems.
How I changed it:
CMD + SHIFT + P
Typed in: C/C++: Edit Configurations (UI)
Made sure that "Mac" was selected under configuration name.
Changed Compiler Path to: /usr/bin/clang++

Clang ast-dump results in infinite loop

For some reason when I try to get the ast-dump of any C/C++ code with Clang, I get an infinite loop which eventually results in clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1136 or some similar error code.
I'm running Windows 10 with Clang version 13.0 (Also tried Clang 12.0 with same issues). I run the command clang -Xclang -ast-dump filename.c.
I've tried multiple files, but at this point I'm just trying to get a hello world ast (which compiles and runs fine via clang).
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("Hello, World!\n");
return 0;
}
I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but I'd appreciate any help, thanks!
It's not an infinite loop if it terminates. :-)
The dumped AST includes stdio.h, which you included, so it's quite big (about 800 lines, when I tried it).
The error message is because the clang compiler (cc1) does not produce an object file when you pass it the -ast-dump option, but the clang driver (clang) doesn't know that. The driver is expecting to be able to link the generated object file into an executable, but it doesn't find the object file so it complains.
Use
clang -Xclang -ast-dump -fsyntax-only filename.c
to terminate the driver after the AST has been dumped.

Assembler Messages: no such instruction when Compiling C++

I am attempting to compile a C++ code using gcc/5.3 on Scientific Linux release 6.7. I keep getting the following errors whenever I run my Makefile though:
/tmp/ccjZqIED.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccjZqIED.s:768: Error: no such instruction: `shlx %rax,%rdx,%rdx'
/tmp/ccjZqIED.s:1067: Error: no such instruction: `shlx %rax,%rdx,%rdx'
/tmp/ccjZqIED.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccjZqIED.s:6229: Error: no such instruction: `mulx %r10,%rcx,%rbx'
/tmp/ccjZqIED.s:6248: Error: no such instruction: `mulx %r13,%rcx,%rbx'
/tmp/ccjZqIED.s:7109: Error: no such instruction: `mulx %r10,%rcx,%rbx'
/tmp/ccjZqIED.s:7128: Error: no such instruction: `mulx %r13,%rcx,%rbx'
I've attmpted to follow the advice from this question with no change to my output:
Compile errors with Assembler messages
My compiler options are currently:
CXXFLAGS = -g -Wall -O0 -pg -std=c++11
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
This means that GCC is outputting an instruction that your assembler doesn't support. Either that's coming from inline asm in the source code, or that shouldn't happen, and suggests that you have compiled GCC on a different machine with a newer assembler, then copied it to another machine where it doesn't work properly.
Assuming those instructions aren't used explicitly in an asm statement you should be able to tell GCC not to emit those instructions with a suitable flag such as -mno-avx (or whatever flag is appropriate to disable use of those particular instructions).
#jonathan-wakely's answer is correct in that the assembler, which your compiler invokes, does not understand the assembly code, which your compiler generates.
As to why that happens, there are multiple possibilities:
You installed the newer compiler by hand without also updating your assembler
Your compiler generates 64-bit instructions, but assembler is limited to 32-bit ones for some reason
Disabling AVX (-mno-avx) is unlikely to help, because it is not explicitly requested either -- there is no -march in the quoted CXXFLAGS. If it did help, then you did not show us all of the compiler flags -- it would've been best, if you simply included the entire compiler command-line.
If my suspicion is correct in 1. above, then you should build and/or install the latest binutils package, which will provide as aware of AVX instructions, among other things. You would then need to rebuild the compiler with the --with-as=/path/to/the/updated/as flag passed to configure.
If your Linux installation is 32-bit only (suspicion 2.), then you should not be generating 64-bit binaries at all. It is possible, but not trivial...
Do post the output of uname -a and your entire compiler command-line leading to the above error-messages.

How to solve C++ conflicts between system and library dependencies

My problem is rather specific, but bear with me.
This in the end is kinda reverse engineering, but this problem in particular seems to fit more this board.
So, I have a shared object compiled for MIPS written in C++. I don't have the source code of the lib. The lib is compiled using GCC 4.3.3. I want to use functions present in this shared object in my amd64 computer running elementary OS. To do this, I used the sourcery cross compiler to cross compile some C++ code to MIPS, that would use this object.
So far I managed this except for this one compile error, which I cannot figure out. The lib is called libdvl.so, and uses as dependency libc.so.0 (and both are in the same folder as the cpp code).
mips-linux-gnu-g++ -g -L/path/to/lib -Wl,-rpath,/path/to/lib -o verifier verifier.cpp -ldvl
which gives me
(...)/mgc/embedded/codebench/bin/../lib/gcc/mips-linux-gnu/4.9.1/../../../../mips-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: libc.so.0, needed by /path/to/lib/libdvl.so, may conflict with libc.so.6
(...)/mgc/embedded/codebench/bin/../lib/gcc/mips-linux-gnu/4.9.1/../../../../mips-linux-gnu/bin/ld: errno##GLIBC_PRIVATE: TLS definition in (...)/mgc/embedded/codebench/bin/../mips-linux-gnu/libc/lib/libc.so.6 section .tbss mismatches non-TLS definition in /path/to/lib/libc.so.0 section .bss
/path/to/lib/libc.so.0: error adding symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
So I added "-l:libc.so.0" and got this
(...)/mgc/embedded/codebench/bin/../lib/gcc/mips-linux-gnu/4.9.1/../../../../mips-linux-gnu/bin/ld: errno: TLS definition in (...)/mgc/embedded/codebench/bin/../mips-linux-gnu/libc/lib/libc.so.6 section .tbss mismatches non-TLS definition in libc.so.0 section .bss
(...)/mgc/embedded/codebench/bin/../mips-linux-gnu/libc/lib/libc.so.6: error adding symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Any idea how to solve this? I know I am using GCC 4.9.1, but I already downloaded the older code sourcery version which uses GCC 4.3.154 and got the exact same error.
EDIT 1: Exactly as Lol4t0 said, filtered using c++filt it gives an actual function name from stdc++. Using
mips-linux-gnu-g++ -g -L/path/to/lib -Wl,-rpath,/path/to/lib -I/path/to/lib -o verifier verifier.cpp -ldvl -l:libuClibc++.so.0 -l:libutil.so.0 -l:libc.so.0 -l:ld-uClibc.so.0 -nodefaultlibs
to give to libdvl its depencies (as I will not rewrite stdc++ :p), I get the following compile error:
(...)/mgc/embedded/codebench/bin/../lib/gcc/mips-linux-gnu/4.9.1/../../../../mips-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /tmp/cc66DLda.o: undefined reference to symbol '_Unwind_Resume##GCC_3.0'
(...)/mgc/embedded/codebench/bin/../mips-linux-gnu/libc/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
I already confirmed lib dependencies and the order in which they appear.
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks for all the help.
Using -nodefaultlibs solves the first problem though.
You are linking against GLIBC (libc.so.6) and some other libc (libc.so.0).
That could never work: you have to have everything compiled and linked against a single, consistent libc.
Since your libdvl.so uses as dependency libc.so.0, and assuming you can't rebuild libdvl.so, you have to use crosscompiler that targets libc.so.0 (which is possibly dietlibc, or uClibc), and compile and link everything else using that toolchain. Your crosscompiler on the other hand appears to target GLIBC, and will not do you any good.
After a lot of trial and error, you may be able to link the final binary using inconsistent builds, and your binary may even get to main (that is very unlikely). But chances of such binary actually working correctly are minuscule.

C++: debug bus error

I am trying to compile a c++ program in Linux, using the command in the shell
$ g++ -Wall *.cpp -o prog
and for some reason it keeps on giving me a weird error:
g++: Internal error: Bus error (program cc1plus) Please submit a full
bug report. See for
instructions.
I searched the net for this bus error, and it says that it has to do with something about accessing illegal memory.
Can someone maybe clarify things a bit more for me?
This error message is telling you that there's a bug in the g++ compiler itself.
Try to narrow it down by removing bits and pieces of your source file until the problem goes away. You're not trying to fix your program, you're just trying to find the part that is breaking the compiler. Once you've found it, you can either give a better bug description or you can change your code to work around it.
Or just download the latest version of the g++ compiler and hope that it's already fixed.
Your problem is not in your code, is the compiler (g++) that is crashing and producing that Bus Error, it's possible you have an outdated version of such compiler and need to update, or you're lucky and found a real bug in g++.
I would try compiling each source file separately, to check what part of the source code triggers the error.