AIX collect2

Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
Tue Nov 13 15:03:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com> writes:

> It seemed to me that any place this patch went it would be ugly.  Since
> collect2 already had some similar AIX-isms thought it would be better to
> have all the ugliness together.

But the AIXisms already in collect2 are to deal with the IBM linker that we
don't control.  It seems like your patch is to work around ways in which
GNU ld doesn't properly emulate IBM ld; I would think that the right
solution would be to improve the emulation.

Jason



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