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Re: Old PLT in elf64-alpha via ld --traditional-format?

To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: Old PLT in elf64-alpha via ld --traditional-format?
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej at zembu dot com>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:09:00 -0800
Cc: Todd Vierling <tv at wasabisystems dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Organization: Zembu Labs, Inc.
References: <20010209101505.A7943@redhat.com> <Pine.WNT.4.32.0102091344220.-90187-100000@xpc.int.duh.org> <20010209104944.A7995@redhat.com>
Reply-To: thorpej at zembu dot com

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:49:44AM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:

 > I think you're going through a lot of effort to fix a bug
 > in the wrong place.  If a user is going to upgrade binutils
 > on an old system, they can upgrade ld.so at the same time.

...unless the user is releasing pre-compiled binary software for
an older system, and needs the newer binutils for some other reason.

-- 
        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>

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