non-portable construct in gcc configure script

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Thu Jun 5 20:49:00 GMT 2003


Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> writes:

>> That change worries me.  GAS may be happy to take .section with no
>> quotes, but how do we know all the assemblers out there are equally
>> content?
>
> I personally think that the question is rather: was this check ever intented 
> to work with anything else than GNU as and GNU ld?

IIRC we cared about at least Solaris native ld.

zw



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