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Re: Java broken after i386 PIC change
- To: Philip Blundell <philb at gnu dot org>
- Subject: Re: Java broken after i386 PIC change
- From: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:47:07 -0500
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:53:00PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >the compiler itself at one point. If the date on which the linkonce bug in
> >ld was fixed can be pinpointed, perhaps a check for a sufficiently recent
> >version is enough.
>
> If it's broken in 2.10 and works in the mainline, you can just test for "2.11
> or newer". It doesn't seem worth legislating for exact snapshots.
Well, the mainline ld reports its version as 2.10.91, not 2.11.
(How often does the binutils version get incremented?)
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