Bug 24486 – Compiling programs with statics produces complaints from the linker and no executable

import std.stdio; int main(string[] args) { static int foo; foo = 1; writefln("%d", foo); return 0; } Compiling with dmd produces some interesting complaints from the linker, whereas compiling with ldc (1.35) does not: (dmd-2.107.1)dca@giovanni:/tmp$ dmd testit.d ld: error: testit.o:(function D main: .text._Dmain+0xe): R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF must be used in MOVQ or ADDQ instructions only ld: error: testit.o:(function D main: .text._Dmain+0x26): R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF must be used in MOVQ or ADDQ instructions only cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) Error: linker exited with status 1 (dmd-2.107.1)dca@giovanni:/tmp$ ls -l testit ls: testit: No such file or directory (dmd-2.107.1)dca@giovanni:/tmp$ ldc2 testit.d (dmd-2.107.1)dca@giovanni:/tmp$ testit 1 (dmd-2.107.1)dca@giovanni:/tmp$

Jonathan Davis suggested a fix which I submitted as a pull request that has been approved.

@Don do you have the link to the pull? Also has it been merged?

I've merged it now: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/16362 Next time, please add "Fix bugzilla 24486" to a commit message in the pull request.