The crash occurs when trying to delete an unused ELF segment, which only appear in executable files. Try stripping the object files before linking. As noted previously the problem arises from strip6x trying to delete a segment and exposing a bookkeeping issue. This brings up the question on why it's trying to delete the segment. The section associated with this segment is .plt_resmgr_handles, which looks like it contains the uninitialized variable 'gGlobalFreeQHnd'. The test case file's segment table entries don't look quite right so this may also be an issue in how this file was linked. It looks like .plt_resmgr_handles is allocated with .text into the same segment (uninitialized and initialize data/code combined). One thing to try would be to ensure .plt_resmgr_handles is placed into its own section/segment.