Need help with the dmd package on NixOS
Mike Franklin
slavo5150 at yahoo.com
Fri May 18 11:28:30 UTC 2018
On Friday, 18 May 2018 at 10:28:37 UTC, Thomas Mader wrote:
> On Friday, 11 May 2018 at 04:27:20 UTC, Thomas Mader wrote:
>> My suspicion about the switch to glibc 2.27 being the problem
>> was wrong.
>> I did a very timeconsuming bisection and found the problem
>> commit to be the one which bumped binutils to 2.30.
>
> Can somebody help me to answer the question from
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23199#c4 please.
> The object is created by the dmd backend but where in the code
> is binutils used?
I'm not sure I understand. Does binutils need to be used to
generated an object file? My understanding is the DMD creates
the object file without the help of binutils. The only time
binutils is really called is when it calls `gcc` to do the link
at
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/b61d1c8989bed54489c9c7eb5acc2e1f4312b8c6/src/dmd/link.d#L157
Mike
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