LDC compiler snap issues on 14.04 (ABI compatibility?)

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 11/02/17 17:31, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> I just reproduced the issue in a VirtualBox install of 14.04 to get these
> details.  Kernel report in kern.log:
>
> Feb 11 17:16:19 vb1404 kernel: [  534.781526] traps: gcc[6209] general
> protection ip:7f6632d1b1ee sp:7fff0a09e2f0 error:0 in
> libc-2.23.so[7f6632bd8000+1bf000]
>
> And `dmesg | grep -i gcc` gave this output:
>
> [    0.000000] Linux version 4.4.0-62-generic (buildd at lcy01-33) (gcc version
> 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) ) #83~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 18
> 18:10:30 UTC 2017 (Ubuntu 4.4.0-62.83~14.04.1-generic 4.4.40)
> [  534.781526] traps: gcc[6209] general protection ip:7f6632d1b1ee
> sp:7fff0a09e2f0 error:0 in libc-2.23.so[7f6632bd8000+1bf000]
>
>> This may give enough information for someone to suggest the next step.
>
> I'm not very experienced at interpreting these kinds of messages, but if I
> understand right they would suggest a libc compatibility issue ... ?

Folks, could I ping on the above?

It seems like a rather severe limitation on the universality of the package (at 
a minimum it probably restricts the package to working on systems with the same 
or later libc) so I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts on if and how this 
could be ameliorated.