Hello,

I would like to see if any progress can be made on the darwin linker error 
reported in 2014 and documented here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59888

This is a significant problem for the OpenKIM system (https://openkim.org) 
which has many users who would like to use its kim-api package 
(https://github.com/openkim/kim-api) and the associated "Model" codes available 
at openkim.org with macOS.

We have been getting by with a work-around (compile for 32-bit architecture 
"-m32" and use the "-read_only_relocs suppress" command line argument) but now 
we would like to be able to provide precompiled binaries that will work with 
other standard compiled software (i.e., 64-bit, etc.) through the homebrew 
package management system.

Here is the minimal code snippet showing the problem and the compiler/linker 
output.

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foo.f90
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module foo contains
   subroutine bar
     use, intrinsic :: iso_c_binding
     call gee(c_funloc(gee))
   end subroutine
   subroutine gee(f) bind(c)
     use, intrinsic :: iso_c_binding
     type(c_funptr) :: f
   end subroutine
end module foo
----------------------------------------------

$ gfortran-7 -shared foo.f90
ld: illegal text-relocation to '_gee' in 
/var/folders/q0/mth73zrd307d66c43f8r3xv80000gp/T//ccYs60h3.o from 'lC0' in /var/folders/q0/mth73zrd307d66c43f8r3xv80000gp/T//ccYs60h3.o for architecture  x86_64
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

$ gfortran-7 --version
GNU Fortran (Homebrew GCC 7.3.0_1) 7.3.0
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.





Thanks,


Ryan S. Elliott