Created attachment 1681
File which reproduces the issue
If the attached file is compiled with
dmd -main -unittest test.d
on x86_64 FreeBSD 11.1 then I get this linker error:
/usr/bin/ld: test.o: no group info for section .data.d_dso_rec
/usr/bin/ld: test.o: no group info for section .text.d_dso_init
/usr/bin/ld: test.o: no group info for section .dtors.d_dso_dtor
/usr/bin/ld: test.o: no group info for section .ctors.d_dso_ctor
I have no idea if x86 has the same problem or not, but the problem does not seem to occur on 64-bit Linux. So, the problem seems to be FreeBSD-specific. I have no clue whether older versions of FreeBSD have the problem or not, but in theory, we're only supporting the latest version of FreeBSD, which is currently 11.1.
I'm sorry that the example code is as disgusting-looking as it is, but it's the result of several runs of dustmite on one of my projects, and the linker errors seem to happen only under some fairly specific circumstances, since it doesn't take much to tweak the code to make the problem go away - though I did manage to get the actual project to into a state where it was very hard to make the problem go away. Fortunately for the project, after some serious refactoring to remove some templated stuff that didn't turn out to be necessary, the problem went away, so this isn't currently blocking my project, but we really shouldn't be getting linker errors like this - especially when other platforms have no problem with the exact same code.
Comment #1 by robert.schadek — 2024-12-13T18:57:19Z