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Re: ld for VMS?


Objects on AVMS are a variable length file type, no such file type exists on Unix, it's just a byte stream. You may be running into this problem. Do this before you try to link on VMS:

$ set file/attr=(rfm=var,rat=none) <foo>.obj

Jay K wrote:
Tristan,
  I'm seeing the following:
  Any alpha-dec-vms-ld invocation with reasonable inputs fails an assertion:
   alpha-dec-vms-ld: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100425 assertion fail /src/binutils/src/bfd/vms-lib.c:351
          BFD_ASSERT (sbm_sz>= sizeof (struct vms_dcxsbm) + l + 3 * sbm_len);
 in _bfd_vms_lib_archive_p. I'm not sure it is complaining about gas output or the libraries from VMS.
Maybe I'll poke around.
When I run it under a debugger:

$ gdb --args alpha-dec-vms-ld cm3-boot-ALPHA32_VMS-1/Makefile.mo
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/alpha-dec-vms-ld cm3-boot-ALPHA32_VMS-1/Makefile.mo
Reading symbols for shared libraries +++. done
/usr/local/bin/alpha-dec-vms-ld: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100425 assertion fail /src/binutils/src/bfd/vms-lib.c:351

Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
Reason: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at address: 0x00000000
0x000562bf in vms_lib_dcx (vec=0x845a08, buf=0x0, nbytes=65536) at /src/binutils/src/bfd/vms-lib.c:616
616              if (!(sbm->flags[offset>> 3] & (1 << (offset & 7))))

up
up
(gdb) p *abfd $1 = {
id = 6, filename = 0x80ed54 "ACLEDTSHR",



Any alpha-dec-vms-as output passed to link on VMS is rejected with lots of errors, invalid record types, invalid lengths, etc.


alpha-dec-vms-gcc -malpha-as output is not accepted by VMS "macro", lots of errors.

alpha-dec-vms-nm does accept alpha-dec-vms-as output.

Any ideas?

You see, I can generate assembly on a cross host. That seems to work.
And then I can either assemble it on the cross host, copy to VMS, link on VMS,
or I could copy the assembly to VMS, run macro and link on VMS.
Or I could link on the cross host and just copy the executables to VMS.
None of the three options seems to be working.

I'll have to poke around more..

- Jay

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From: jay.krell@cornell.edu
To: gingold@adacore.com
CC: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: RE: ld for VMS?
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:24:09 +0000


Darn ok. Maybe your changes will be contributed upstream? I guess not. I'll try to cross build it then. I'm seeing new errors, building unwind stuff in libgcc. I'll try some different configurations, could be gcc configure saw the GNU as/ld and decided to provide more functionality. Yes I can see binutils trunk builds VMS ld, thanks. I had only tried the latest release. Maybe I should go past 4.5 for gcc too?

I also had to hack the headers a bit, like ln -s . vms and
#ifdef __GNUC__
#ifndef __int64
#define __int64 long long
#endif

Thanks,
 - Jay

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Subject: Re: ld for VMS?
From: gingold@adacore.com
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:35:15 +0200
CC: binutils@sourceware.org
To: jay.krell@cornell.edu


On Apr 22, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Jay K wrote:


Awesome!
"Partly" as in?
So, partially. This is still work in progress. But I am able to link and run large programs (such as gcc).

I can do without shared objects, for one thing, at least for now.
I can try trunk.
Use of shared objects work. But ld can't currently generate shared images.

gcc 4.5 seems to largely work for Alpha/vms "out of the box".
At least to output assembly, I think for GNU as. (which I had already built/installed, so configure found it).
Right.

My larger goal is to cross build: gcc, bash, sed, awk, make, etc. enough so that I can build gcc natively, at least cc1.
Well, you'd better to forget that. If you want a native gcc, you'd better to build it via a cross compiler.

We did native builds of gcc, but it requires a lot of adjustments in the scripts. Tedious work.

Tristan.




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