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Re: squangle transition hack
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Subject: Re: squangle transition hack
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:43:40 +0100 (MET)
- cc: Martin von Loewis <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>, egcs at cygnus dot com
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Joe Buck wrote:
> The problem is that many assemblers cannot process the manglings generated
> by
> map<string,string>
>
> because of limits on symbol lengths, so people are going to need
> squangling before the new ABI is ready.
I *have* been hit by this quite a couple of times on various platforms
(which is especially annoying if you've only got a guest account for
giving a demo).
However, I failed to see any evidence lately that squangling will be
activated by default in the near future. -- What's the ``official''
roadmap?
Gerald
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