mscoff x86 invalid pointers

[Baz via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 10 May 2015 at 12:20:39 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote:
> On 2015-05-10 03:54, Baz wrote:
>> On Sunday, 10 May 2015 at 04:16:45 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote:
>>> On 2015-05-09 05:44, Baz wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 06:21:11 UTC, extrawurst wrote:
>>>>> On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 00:16:28 UTC, Etienne wrote:
>>>>>> I'm trying to compile a library that I think used to work 
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> -m32mscoff flag before I reset my machine configurations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/etcimon/memutils
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whenever I run `dub test --config=32mscoff` it gives me an 
>>>>>> assertion
>>>>>> failure, which is a global variable that already has a 
>>>>>> pointer value
>>>>>> for some reason..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm wondering if someone here could test this out on their 
>>>>>> machine
>>>>>> with v2.067.1? There's no reason why this shouldn't work, 
>>>>>> it runs
>>>>>> fine in DMD32/optlink  and DMD64/mscoff, just not in 
>>>>>> DMD32/mscoff.
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> you can always use travis-ci to do such a job for you ;)
>>>>
>>>> doesn't -m32mscoff recquire phobos to be compiled as COFF 
>>>> too ? I think
>>>> that travis uses the official releases (win32 releases have 
>>>> phobos as
>>>> OMF) so he can't run the unittests like that...
>>>>
>>>> The dark side of the story is that you have to recompile 
>>>> phobos by hand
>>>> with -m32mscoff...I'm not even sure that there is a option 
>>>> for this in
>>>> the win32.mak...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Meh, I ended up upgrading to 2.068 and everything went well. 
>>> I clearly
>>> remember 2.067.1 working but spent a whole day recompiling
>>> druntime/phobos COFF versions in every configuration possible 
>>> and
>>> never got it working again
>>
>> Could you tell me the way to compile druntime & phobos 32bit 
>> COFF ?
>> Would you have some custom win32.mak to share ?
>> Thx.
>>
>
> I edited win64.mak, you need to change it to MODEL=32mscoff and 
> remove all occurence of amd64/ in the file (there are 3), for 
> both druntime and phobos. Save this to win32mscoff.mak
>
> You need to place the phobos32mscoff.lib into 
> dmd2/windows/lib32mscoff/ (the folder doesn't exist)

Obviously there is no config for gcc-cpp...thx anyway for the 
tips.