abinit fails to build on AArch64 (assembler errors)

[Matthias Klose]

see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abinit/5.3.4.dfsg-4/+build/5488698

only seen on AArch64, with both GCC 4.8 and 4.9

f95 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../defs -I./../defs -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -c -o contstr21.o contstr21.F90
/tmp/cc4NSIhF.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/cc4NSIhF.s:753: Error: pc-relative load offset out of range
/tmp/cc4NSIhF.s:807: Error: pc-relative load offset out of range
/tmp/cc4NSIhF.s:856: Error: pc-relative load offset out of range
/tmp/cc4NSIhF.s:1274: Error: pc-relative load offset out of range
/tmp/cc4NSIhF.s:1528: Error: pc-relative load offset out of range
/tmp/cc4NSIhF.s:1617: Error: pc-relative load offset out of range

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fails with 4.7 too.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

seen only with -O0

[Kumar Venkataramanan (venkataramanan-kumar)]

This bug is no tracked here
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400

[Antonio Rosales (arosales)]

Per https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400#c10

"GCC 5 is almost out of maintenance and this happens only at -O0"

Thus, the bug will not be fixed if only found in GCC 5. Suggest to close this bug out.

-Antonio

[Michael Banck (mbanck)]

Anyway, Debian switched to -O2 for other reasons, so a sync might fix it.