Bug 16290 – Problems with -fPIC, libraries and exceptions

Hi! I've stumbled across the following problem: when I raise an exception from a (statically linked) library that was compiled with -fPIC, I get a segmentation fault. Example: -- libfoo/dub.json { "name" : "foo", "description" : "Exception raising lib", "dflags" : [ "-fPIC" ] } -- -- libfoo/source/foo.d module foo; public void throwIt() { throw new Exception("This is an exception!"); } -- -- bar/dub.json { "name" : "bar", "description" : "uses libfoo", "dependencies" : { "foo" : "*" }, } -- bar/source/app.d import foo; void main() { throwIt(); } -- If I run "bar" (after libfoo is added through "dub add-local", of course), I get a segmentation fault (the exception cannot even be caught). If I remove "-fPIC" I get the usual stack trace and I can catch the exception as well. Is this a compiler bug or is there a reason for that? I'm using "DMD64 D Compiler v2.071.1", and it works properly both with gdc and ldmd2. P.S.: This is simplified test case, the reason why I'm trying -fPIC is because I want to link a dependency statically in a .so file which in turn will be dynamically loaded as a plugin.

Fixed in https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6129 - seems to be a duplicate of issue 16031. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 16031 ***