The tradition (AIUI) on Linux is for PIC object files to have extension .os. DMD however refuses to recognize this extension. Is this something to fix?
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On 1/21/2014 10:38 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> The tradition (AIUI) on Linux is for PIC object files to have
> extension .os. DMD however refuses to recognize this extension. Is this
> something to fix?

Hmm, I've never heard of that tradition! And:

    cc foo.c -c -fPIC

generates foo.o, not foo.os (on Ubuntu).

On Tuesday, 21 January 2014 at 20:29:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/21/2014 10:38 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>> The tradition (AIUI) on Linux is for PIC object files to have
>> extension .os. DMD however refuses to recognize this extension. Is this
>> something to fix?
>
> Hmm, I've never heard of that tradition!

I haven't come across that either. Maybe some build system (or helper program like libtool) does/did this under the hood?

David

On 2014-01-21 21:29, Walter Bright wrote:

> Hmm, I've never heard of that tradition!

I haven't seen it either.

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On Tuesday, 21 January 2014 at 18:38:44 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> The tradition (AIUI) on Linux is for PIC object files to have
> extension .os. DMD however refuses to recognize this extension. Is this
> something to fix?

Instead of .os you perhaps meant to write .so, which would
be the extension for a Linux shared object file (and thus PIC)?