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Re: RFC: linkage patch to mips.c
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:46:00 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC: linkage patch to mips.c
- References: <wvlelcvvxwq.fsf@prospero.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:24:53PM +0100, Jason Merrill wrote:
> In a patch of 2002-05-16, I added this check to work around a bug with RTTI
> info. Nathan later fixed the bug properly, but I forgot to remove this
> hack. I fear that removing it now would break ABI compatibility on MIPS
> targets; new code that expects small comdats to be in sdata would fail to
> link against old code that doesn't put them there.
>
> Phooey. Thoughts?
Yep. Yer hosed.
r~