this.mem.setUint32(offset + 4, 0, true);
				offset += 8;
			});

			// The linker guarantees global data starts from at least wasmMinDataAddr.
			// Keep in sync with cmd/link/internal/ld/data.go:wasmMinDataAddr.
			const wasmMinDataAddr = 4096 + 8192;
			if (offset >= wasmMinDataAddr) {
				throw new Error("total length of command line and environment variables exceeds limit");
			}

    gcc_env = get_gcc_compiler(environ_cp)
    if gcc_env is not None:

      # Use gold linker if 'gcc' and if 'ppc64le'
      write_to_bazelrc('build --linkopt="-fuse-ld=gold"')

      # Get the linker version
      ld_version = run_shell([gcc_env, '-Wl,-version']).split()

      ld_version_int = 0
      for i in range(len(ld_version)):

	FMOVS	n-8(SP), F15           // 78f0f010
	FMOVD	-9999999(R8)(R9*1), F8 // c0a1ff67698141aa9000688a8000
	FMOVD	F4, F5                 // 2854

	// RX (12-bit displacement) and RXY (20-bit displacement) instruction encoding (e.g. LD vs LDY)
	FMOVD	(R1), F0               // 68001000
	FMOVD	4095(R2), F13          // 68d02fff
	FMOVD	4096(R2), F15          // edf020000165
	FMOVS	4095(R2)(R3), F13      // 78d32fff