Re: Questions about ``[PATCH] GCC side of .eh_frame_hdr support (take 3)''

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:44:25AM -0500, Loren James Rittle wrote:
> I admit that I haven't debugged it back in binutils yet, but I think
> that Mr. Optimization doesn't work with pre-staged relocatable output
> (at least as created by libtool).

Trick question.  Mr Optimization isn't supposed to be running
with ld -r.  And this probably explains why we havn't seen the
problem on linux -- libtool doesn't think libgcj needs staging
here for some reason.

> Given the time to a gcc 3.1 release, what is the best work around to
> this issue?  Does the answer change knowing we have buggy binutils
> in the field?

I don't know.  This is the second 2.12/2.11.late binutils bug
to show up in the last week or so.  This kind of thing is
positively awful to detect in configure.


r~