Cross-compilation related bug

[Sim Tov]

Thank you, Alan, for your response!

Luca has provided some important information on this issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29389#c2

1. Do you still need some more input on this?
2. Is there a chance that the fix for this will enter the version 2.39?

Thank you!

On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 6:05 AM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 09:40:35PM +0300, Sim Tov via Binutils wrote:
> > If you don't have a Windows machine to install MSYS2:
> >
> > https://www.msys2.org/
> >
> > We would be more than happy to follow your instructions in a live
> > session (e.g. via IRC, etc) and provide you
> > with the outputs, logs, screenshots and screen sharing...
>
> I'm sorry, the reality is that trying to debug remotely is extremely
> time consuming and frustrating for everyone involved.
>
> > > But maybe one, who is familiar with the internals of binutils, can
> > > guess what is wrong, being provided with the file names and lines:
> > >
> > > binutils-gdb/bfd/cofflink.c:2279
> > > binutils-gdb/bfd/coff-x86_64.c:696
>
> All that says to me is "something went wrong", likely long before
> the assertions triggered.
>
> If you expect someone to look at your bug, you need to package up a
> set of object files so that someone can reproduce the problem by
> running the linker on an entirely different machine.  Note that the
> inputs to the linker are needed, not source files.  We don't want to
> and can't debug your compiler for you..  That means *all* the inputs
> to ld, so system libraries too.  Please do test that what you package
> up is a complete testcase, by running a cross-linker on a non-windows
> machine.
>
> --
> Alan Modra
> Australia Development Lab, IBM