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Re: Kill -fgnu-linker

From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>
To: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:50:43 -0800
Subject: Re: Kill -fgnu-linker
References: <874qwks8cv.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com><xypbrqsqt5c.fsf@miranda.boston.redhat.com>

Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> writes:

> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:25:52 -0800, "Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
>> The -fgnu-linker option has had no effect in the entire history of the
>> CVS repository, except for a few days in 2001 when iris6.h used it.
>
> Hmm, when did we stop using the magic ctor stabs on a.out targets?

We still support those (see default_stabs_asm_out_constructor)
although I am not sure any targets are left that use them.  However,
that support does not involve flag_gnu_linker.  It was a write-only
variable. 

zw

References:
- Kill -fgnu-linker
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: Kill -fgnu-linker
  - From: Jason Merrill

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