Approval: can I commit this please?

[Andreas Schwab]

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

|> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:17:27PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
|> > On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 03:52:50PM -0700, Kean Johnston wrote:
|> > >    if $gcc_cv_as -o conftest1.o conftest1.s > /dev/null 2>&1 \
|> > >       && $gcc_cv_as -o conftest2.o conftest2.s > /dev/null 2>&1 \
|> > >       && $gcc_cv_as -o conftest3.o conftest3.s > /dev/null 2>&1 \
|> > > -     && $gcc_cv_ld -shared -o conftest1.so conftest1.o \
|> > > +     && $gcc_cv_ld $ldshared -o conftest1.so conftest1.o \
|> > 
|> > Jakub, is there any particular reason why we needed -shared
|> > here at all?
|> 
|> I don't see any but this one: if -shared is dropped, there needs to be
|> _start symbol defined or whatever the linker wants to use as entry point,
|> so we avoid linker warning (or whatever other linkers do in that case).

You could also specify the entry point explicitly (-e).

Andreas.

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