/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output

Issue

Our developers are getting this message when using GCC on RH5.8. It appears to be related to these bug tickets:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22185
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19664

It appears its fixed in GCC4.2 which quite obviously isn't in RH5
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)

Is there any plan for RH to backport this fix to GCC4.1 or is RH6 the only path for resolution?

We tried using g++44 and it gets past the initial problem of this case, but now it complains about the linker.

Redhat ships a binutils220-2.20.51.0.2-5.29.el5 with the gcc44 suite, but only includes the following:

[root@ld-chhfe03 ~]# rpm -q -l binutils220-2.20.51.0.2-5.29.el5
/usr/libexec/binutils220
/usr/libexec/binutils220/as
/usr/libexec/binutils220/objdump
/usr/share/doc/binutils220-2.20.51.0.2
/usr/share/doc/binutils220-2.20.51.0.2/COPYING

The following is what the user is now experiencing after trying to use the g++44 compiler:

This command ... (creates a .o) :
/usr/bin/g++44 -m64 -o rh5a64g4/obj/td5_daterange_dump/td5_daterange_dump.o -c td5_daterange_dump.C -I/tp64/boost/1.47.0/include/boost-1_47 -I/tp64/ICU/4.2.1/include -I/auto/tickdata1/hffi/hdf5/install/hdf5-1.8.10-of20120813/release_st/include -I/devsandbox/hftdat/buildhfe/checkTd5/nthftdat/td5/libtd5/rh5a64g4/hdr -I/devsandbox/hftdat/buildhfe/checkTd5/nthftdat/td5/edstd5data/rh5a64g4/hdr -I/devsandbox/hftdat/buildhfe/checkTd5/nthftdat/td5/td5data/rh5a64g4/hdr -I/devsandbox/hftdat/buildhfe/checkTd5/nthftdat/td5/quickstart/iterators/rh5a64g4/hdr -DPTHREADS -DTHREAD -DH5Eset_auto_vers=1 -DNDEBUG -D_MT -D_REENTRANT -DLINUX -D_GNU_SOURCE -DINCLUDE_TEMPLATE_C -DRH5A64G4 -fexceptions -O2 -march=x86-64 -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -DSPEC_CPU2000_LP64 -Wpointer-arith -Wno-deprecated -Wreturn-type -fmessage-length=0 -I/auto/hfbld/hfbase/HFBASE.20121113.01/hfbase/rh5a64g4/hdr

... results in the following when later the .o is being read by ld:

/usr/bin/ld: rh5a64g4/obj/td5_daterange_dump/td5_daterange_dump.o: invalid string offset 26953528 >= 65 for section .shstrtab'
/usr/bin/ld: rh5a64g4/obj/td5_daterange_dump/td5_daterange_dump.o: invalid string offset 102 >= 65 for section'
rh5a64g4/obj/td5_daterange_dump/td5_daterange_dump.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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