[PATCH][RFC] API extension for binutils (type of symbols).

[Jeff Law]

On Mon, 2020-03-09 at 17:56 +0100, Martin Liška wrote:
> On 3/9/20 4:36 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > We nee to support different variables, like TLS, data and bss variables.
> 
> Why do we need TLS? Right now, it's not supported by nm. Or am I wrong?
> 
> About BSS and DATA I agree that it would be handy. I can theoretically
> covered with code in get_variable_section/bss_initializer_p. But it's
> quite logic and I'm not sure we should simulate it.
> 
> @Honza/Richi: Do you have any opinion about that?
Or could we just fix the damn broken configure scripts?  Isn't that what's
driving all this nonsense?

The HP-UX bits for this in configure work correctly.    I verified that months
ago and even have a sed script which will take a broken configure script and fix
it.

jeff