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Re: Link tests after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
>> Yes, that makes sense to me.  Bare metal systems are of course somewhat
>> different.  What do you think about that?
> 
> I think it's well established that at least some bare-metal systems 
> default to not linking with any particular start-files (etc.).

Sorry, I meant to be asking: "for bare-metal, do you think we should
permit the library configure scripts to perform link tests (as we do for
GNU/Linux), or should we require that they perform no link tests?"

>> Do you understand how MIPS/Power works?  I'd really like to know what
>> the difference is.  It might be an easy difference to resolve, or there
>> might be something more fundamental, but before we do anything I'd like
>> to know why one works and the other doesn't.

Thanks for answering this.  Bernd, I'd be interested in whether any of
that helps.

Thanks,

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Mark Mitchell
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