Hi Ian I forgot to mention that I had used AIX as and AIX ld when compiling the gcc on AIX. Perhaps the as does not understand the hidden symbols that are to be hidden. I plan to give a try with GNU as and see it matters. I think using GNU as on AIX causes some issues. I will try that. With Regards Vardhan -----Original Message----- From: Ian Lance Taylor [mailto:iant@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 7:25 PM To: Vardhan, Sundara (GE Infra, Energy) Cc: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Duplicate Symbol "Vardhan, Sundara (GE Infra, Energy)" <sundara.vardhan@xxxxxx> writes: > Compiling using GCC 4.4.3 and linking using AIX ld, I get some > duplicate symbol warnings. Upon debugging further I see that they are > defined in libgcc_s.a and also in libgcc.a. > Should we have both of these library directories? It is normal to have both, yes. The situation on AIX is uncommon. Normally linking against -lgcc_s and -lgcc is fine, and is done because there are a few objects which are put in -lgcc but not in -lgcc_s. I'm not sure how this is supposed to work on AIX. Ian
