crtstuff.c change is bad for (at least) OpenServer

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Fri Jan 23 09:47:00 GMT 1998


  In message < 19980118145012.10990@dgii.com >you write:
  > I can't figure out of this is actually a bug or not, but I've partially
  > analyzed a one line change that EGCS just inherited from 2.8.0 that kills
  > COFF code generation on OpenServer dead.   I've cc'ed Richard in hopes
  > he can further comment becuase I think this change was his on Dec. 23.
  > 
  > crtstuff.c has recently started to look like this:
  > 
  >    before we start to execute any of the user's code.  */
Well, the code looks reasonable -- ie I don't think we want either the
prologue or the epilogue in that code.

However, we don't know what the final executable looks like, which is
important when analyzing failures in the .init support.

jeff



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