Re: [PATCH] new FreeBSD/alpha support

[Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:51:25PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> Are you open to making alpha/elf.h more generic?

Possibly.  Or just modifying it to include things like passing on
rpath and soname and such.  We *are* using the same linker after all.

> Things like CC1_SPEC (I don't understand why that is being
> set in there), ASM_SPEC, and LINK_SPEC seem too implementation specific.

The CC1_SPEC and ASM_SPEC are exactly as generic as they need to be.
That is, they apply to *any* alpha port that is using gas.  If you
discard them you will lose sdata support and linker relaxation.


r~