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Re: ld for VMS?
On Apr 26, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Douglas B Rupp wrote:
> Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> On Apr 25, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Jay K wrote:
>>> Tristan,
>>> I'm seeing the following:
>>> Any alpha-dec-vms-ld invocation with reasonable inputs fails an assertion:
>>> alpha-dec-vms-ld: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100425 assertion fail /src/binutils/src/bfd/vms-lib.c:351
>>> BFD_ASSERT (sbm_sz>= sizeof (struct vms_dcxsbm) + l + 3 * sbm_len);
>>> in _bfd_vms_lib_archive_p. I'm not sure it is complaining about gas output or the libraries from VMS.
>> This is an error due to a compressed library from VMS. Maybe starlet ?
>>> (gdb) p *abfd $1 = {
>>> id = 6, filename = 0x80ed54 "ACLEDTSHR",
>> And more precisely the member ACLEDTSHR.
>
> It could be a shareable image library, not an object library. It will contain only a symbol table and a pointer to the .exe. ACLEDTSHR sounds like a shareable image to me.
Maybe. But IIRC, shareable image were not compressed.