[14/25] Specs cleanup: MIPS -call_shared -non_shared

Richard Sandiford rdsandiford@googlemail.com
Fri Jan 14 12:58:00 GMT 2011


"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> In addition to the specs mentioned in patch 13, various MIPS targets
> have specs passing -call_shared and -non_shared to the linker.  While
> these options do exist with the GNU linker, there is nothing
> MIPS-specific about them and there should be nothing MIPS-specific
> about such options being accepted by the driver; the appropriate
> dependence is on the target operating system.  Thus, this patch
> removes them also from specs for non-IRIX targets.  OK to commit?

I'm not sure this is a good idea.  I'd agree with your logic if we
were starting from scratch, but I don't see the need to change from
historical precendent now.

Richard



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