Also reported as PR25210. There's a problem when using the two linker options '--fix-cortex-a53-835769 --fix-cortex-a53-843419' together. This is the default in our distro, but not upstream so it went unnoticed. Leads to an error while linking any code that sports one of the sequences that triggers the errata fixup (gcc being one of those), namely: ld: can not size stub section: invalid operation ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000000400078 ld: linker stubs: file class ELFCLASSNONE incompatible with ELFCLASS64 ld: final link failed: file in wrong format --- bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c.mm 2019-09-09 13:19:43.000000000 +0000 +++ bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c 2019-11-20 11:44:00.000000000 +0000 @@ -4312,7 +4312,8 @@ elfNN_aarch64_size_stubs (bfd *output_bfd, || (input_bfd->flags & BFD_LINKER_CREATED) != 0) continue; - if (!_bfd_aarch64_erratum_835769_scan (input_bfd, info, + if (input_bfd != stub_bfd + && !_bfd_aarch64_erratum_835769_scan (input_bfd, info, &num_erratum_835769_fixes)) return false; }