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From: Sim Tov <smntov@gmail.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Cross-compilation related bug
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:29:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+X_a+zLiz2=pCKc6Ynd9rraM45C386C-AnOREPD_sVn5s_MWw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YtoT43PEOJ351NLJ@squeak.grove.modra.org>

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

      reply	other threads:[~2022-07-22 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-21 13:49 Sim Tov
2022-07-21 14:08 ` Jan Beulich
2022-07-21 14:33   ` Sim Tov
2022-07-21 18:40     ` Sim Tov
2022-07-22  3:05       ` Alan Modra
2022-07-22 12:29         ` Sim Tov [this message]

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