Thoughts about D

[Michael V. Franklin]

On Monday, 4 December 2017 at 01:01:47 UTC, Michael V. Franklin 
wrote:

> .$> dmd -defaultlib= -debuglib= -conf= main.d -of=main
> /usr/bin/ld: main.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against 
> `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; 
> recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on 
> output
>
> I didn't compile with -shared.  What's going on here?

> .$> dmd -defaultlib= -debuglib= -conf= main.d -of=main -fPIC
>
> main.o:(.text.d_dso_init[.data.d_dso_rec]+0x22): undefined 
> reference to `_d_dso_registry'
>
> Again, not sure why the compiler's generated code for that?

Ok, well perhaps that makes sense compiling with -fPIC, but the 
"relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1'" seems 
unnecessary.

Mike