[Bug lto/40790] plugin-api.h unconditionally includes stdint.h

[ro at techfak dot uni-bielefeld dot de]

------- Comment #14 from ro at techfak dot uni-bielefeld dot de  2009-10-09 13:24 -------
Subject: Re:  plugin-api.h unconditionally includes stdint.h

> ------- Comment #12 from joseph at codesourcery dot com  2009-10-09 12:58 -------
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> > That would be no problem since AFAIK gold only supports ELF targets by
> > design, and Tru64 UNIX uses ECOFF.  Not even GNU ld supports that anymore
> > (or the support has bitrotten to the point of being unusable).
> 
> gold supports non-ELF hosts (or will once Andrew Pinski's MinGW host 
> patches are in), and in due course should support plugins on such hosts.  

Ok, but only as a cross-linker to ELF targets, I suppose?

> (I've no idea whether Tru64 has a dynamic loading interface making plugins 
> on such a host possible at all, but if it has such an interface there is 
> no reason in principle against someone adding support for plugins for a 
> cross compiler and linker from Tru64 to an ELF target.)

Tru64 UNIX supports dlopen(3), so you should be set.

        Rainer


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