On Tuesday, 7 January 2014 at 11:04:45 UTC, Joakim wrote:
I ran into this recently when compiling for Android/x86, as the Android NDK linker calls --gc-sections by default. I was able to reproduce the segfault with dmd compiling a linux/x86 executable with the --gc-sections flag added to the linker command, when compiling sieve.d from the samples. I think sieve.d was working fine when I removed the recent patches for shared library support on linux, in sections_linux.d, so this incompatibility might be related to the shared library work. I'm not sure if you're even using that work though, so maybe that's just one of the ways that gc-sections trips up.
Interesting! I'd like to take the current 4.8 backport and compile it without the shared library stuff to test this out. But I don't know how. Would you mind giving me a quick explanation on how to remove these patches using git? I'm really quite new to some of these tools.
