Found this when tried to link lang/ccl FreeBSD port.
Issue is very close to D23201.
GNU assembler 2.17.50 [FreeBSD] 2007-07-03 could generate broken objects,
where notype symbols are associated with symtab:
[ 9] .symtab SYMTAB 0000000000000000 00003c78 0000000000006858 0000000000000018 10 803 8 192: 000000000000000d 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 9 _cons_org
This is the reason of lang/ccl port link fail:
===> Building for ccl-1.11 m4 -DFREEBSD -DX86 -DX8664 -DHAVE_TLS -I../ ../x86-spjump64.s | as --64 -o x86-spjump64.o cc -m64 -g -Wl,--export-dynamic -o ../../fx86cl64 pad.o x86-spjump64.o x86-spentry64.o x86-subprims64.o pmcl-kernel.o gc-common.o x86-gc.o bits.o x86-exceptions.o x86-utils.o image.o thread_manager.o lisp-debug.o memory.o unix-calls.o x86-asmutils64.o imports.o lispdcmd.o plprint.o plsym.o xlbt.o x86_print.o -lm -lthr /usr/bin/ld: error: x86-spjump64.o: invalid section index: 9 cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) *** Error code 1
Patch fixes the issue.