https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87353
--- Comment #1 from Vincent Lefèvre <vincent-gcc at vinc17 dot net> --- The bug may be in contrib/texi2pod.pl as the following pod text is generated: Therefore, the G++ and driver automatically adds B<-shared-libgcc> whenever you build a shared library or a main executable, because C++ programs typically use exceptions, so this is the right thing to do. and the pod specification says: "A verbatim paragraph is distinguished by having its first character be a space or a tab."