GDC in Slackware and a bit about GDC development

[Eugene Wissner]

On Saturday, 23 September 2017 at 20:34:51 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 23 September 2017 at 21:45, Eugene Wissner via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> 
> wrote:
>> GDC looks pretty nice. I had only one problem: I got a linking 
>> error if I
>> use core.stdc.stdarg; not sure if it is my failure or a bug. 
>> But I could
>> build my library and run tests. Pretty nice.
>>
>
> What's the linker error?

Here is the code, test.d:

import core.stdc.stdarg;

void format(char[] buf, ...)
{
     va_list va;
     va_start(va, buf);
     va_end(va);
  }

void main()
{
}


$ gdc test.d
/tmp/ccwm5f8o.o: In function `_D4test6formatFAaYv':
test.d:(.text+0x114): undefined reference to 
`_D4core4stdc6stdarg6va_endFNbPS4core4stdc6stdarg13__va_list_tagZv'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


> Looks good.  A simpler GCC frontend would be 
> https://github.com/giuseppe/gccbrainfuck
>
But without the great explanations :)