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Re: [patch] VAX ELF PIC support.

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Matt Thomas <matt at 3am-software dot com>,gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:49:47 +0930
Subject: Re: [patch] VAX ELF PIC support.
References: <20030922051821.GB32436@redhat.com><0123A3A8-ECC0-11D7-825E-000A957020BC@3am-software.com><20030922063136.GG32436@redhat.com>

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:31:36PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Alpha *does* use an assembler directive for this: ".arch".
> 
> It appears that ppc is not so enlightened.

All fairly easy to do except -a64/-a32.  gas opens its output
file and hence sets the object file format before reading any
input files.  Too many things need undoing to switch from ELF32
to ELF64 after the output bfd is opened.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

References:
- Re: [patch] VAX ELF PIC support.
  - From: Richard Henderson
- Re: [patch] VAX ELF PIC support.
  - From: Matt Thomas
- Re: [patch] VAX ELF PIC support.
  - From: Richard Henderson

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