binutils 2.25 / trunk fails to build slof on powerpc/ppc64

works with binutils 2.24 in 14.04 LTS, fails with 20141014 in 14.10. gold does succeed, although didn't check the result for correctness)

Starting program: /usr/bin/ld --build-id -static -m elf64ppc --hash-style=gnu --as-needed -z relro -o xvect.bin.tmp -q -n --oformat binary lowmem.o -Ttext=0x100

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x10036b34 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x10036b34 in ?? ()
#1 0x10019750 in ?? ()
#2 0x10019750 in ?? ()
#3 0x10003cb4 in ?? ()
#4 0x0fd11314 in generic_start_main (main=0x10003610, argc=17, argv=0xffffe694,
    auxvec=0xffffe740, init=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>,
    stack_end=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>) at ../csu/libc-start.c:287
#5 0x0fd114d4 in __libc_start_main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>,
    ev=<optimized out>, auxvec=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>,
    stinfo=<optimized out>, stack_on_entry=<optimized out>)
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/libc-start.c:94
#6 0x00000000 in ?? ()