ld for VMS?

[Douglas B Rupp]

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.