I'm implementing cross-compilation support in rules_go 
<https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go>.  This takes a low-level approach 
to building golang targets that involves use of the individual toolchain 
components such as 'go tool asm', 'go tool compile', 'go tool link', etc...

Cross-compilation of pure-go inputs is working swimmingly.  However, I'm 
wondering how to cross-compile assembly inputs correctly.  Consider the 
following assembly file that defines an 'add' method.

*#include "textflag.h"*

*TEXT ·add(SB),NOSPLIT,$0*
* MOVQ x+0(FP), BX*
* MOVQ y+8(FP), BP*
* ADDQ BP, BX*
* MOVQ BX, ret+16(FP)*
* RET*

For example, this works:

*$ go tool asm -I $(go env GOROOT)/pkg/include -o add.o add.s*
*$ hexdump add.o*

*0000000 67 6f 20 6f 62 6a 65 63 74 20 64 61 72 77 69 6e*

*0000010 20 61 6d 64 36 34 20 67 6f 31 2e 36 2e 32 0a 21*

*0000020 0a 00 00 67 6f 31 33 6c 64 01 00 fe 02 0c 22 22*

*0000030 2e 61 64 64 00 00 40 00 00 40 48 8b 5c 24 08 48*

*0000040 8b 6c 24 10 48 01 eb 48 89 5c 24 18 c3 cc cc cc*

*0000050 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 00 ff ff ff ff 0f*

*0000060 00 02 00 00 06 02 20 00 06 02 20 00 16 0a 05 02*

*0000070 05 02 03 02 05 02 0e 00 00 02 28 22 22 2e 61 64*

*0000080 64 2e 61 72 67 73 5f 73 74 61 63 6b 6d 61 70 00*

*0000090 00 02 52 2f 55 73 65 72 73 2f 70 63 6a 2f 67 69*

*00000a0 74 68 75 62 2f 67 72 70 63 2d 67 72 65 65 74 65*

*00000b0 72 74 69 6d 65 72 2f 61 64 64 2e 73 02 ff ff 67*

*00000c0 6f 31 33 6c 64                                 *

*00000c5*


Given the magic of "goose" and "garch" (and it is magical), I expected this 
to work:

*$ env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm go tool asm -I $(go env GOROOT)/pkg/include -o 
add.o add.s*

*add.s:4: unrecognized instruction "MOVQ"*

*add.s:5: unrecognized instruction "MOVQ"*

*add.s:6: unrecognized instruction "ADDQ"*

*add.s:7: unrecognized instruction "MOVQ"*

*asm: asm: assembly of add.s failed*


This was the initial issue for this post.  However, I figured that part out 
(the std library needs to be compiled first).  So this works:

*$ env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm go install std && go tool asm -I $(go env 
GOROOT)/pkg/include -o add.o add.s*

However, now I'm curious why whatever platform GOOS_GOARCH I choose, the 
file is exactly the same (see hexdump above).

So i'm wondering why that is.  Am I doing something wrong?  If not, why are 
GOOS and GOARCH needed at all at this stage?  

Thanks for helping me clear this up, and thanks for golang!
Paul

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