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Re: Is this supposed to work, or am I loopy?
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Is this supposed to work, or am I loopy?
- From: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:53:08 -0500
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200101051833.KAA01793@elmo.cygnus.com>
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:33:27AM -0800, Nick Clifton wrote:
>
> Ah, I see. I guess it is a trivial thing to fix. I am not sure if it
> is really important though. Support for the pass through of -R does
> not appear to be documented and there is an official way of passing
> switches to the linker that does work. Not my call really. The patch
> below might make the i386 Linux target consistent with the Sparc
> Solaris target, although there are still plenty of other targets that
> do not support this abbreviation.
That, plus -R<something_that_isn't_a_directory> has an entirely different
meaning under Linux... which I suppose should still be passed through. :-)
Messing about in the config/<arch> directories always gave me the shivers,
so even if this patch doesn't go in, I'll keep it around for reference
and maybe for local users. Thanks.
Phil
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