Need help with the dmd package on NixOS

[Johannes Pfau]

On Friday, 18 May 2018 at 11:28:30 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
> 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.

As far as I know, that's correct. GCC-based compilers emit ASM 
code only and leave assembling of the objects files to the 
'binutils as' assembler. That's probably the reason they assumed 
it's a binutils bug. For DMD, binutils is not involved when 
creating object files. So this is likely a DMD bug.

-- Johannes