Re: RFC: using ld 2.14 on irix

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>]

On 14 Jun 2003, Richard Sandiford wrote:

> >  There was a discussion on the incompatibilities recently -- see
> > 'http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-02/msg00345.html'.  Ralf might
> > shed additional light on the dependencies.  The patch he proposed isn't
> > that bad in principle.
> 
> FWIW, I did read that thread before my original posting, but I thought
> it was about the treatment of relocs against local symbols.  In other
> words, I thought it was the problem that Alex fixed with:
> 
>     http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-03/msg00148.html

 I vaguely recalled a fix going in, but I wasn't sure -- that's indeed the
right reference.

> It's relocs against global symbols that are causing the
> problems for me.

 That a proof I haven't read your mail carefully enough.  I think our
interpretation is consistent with other Linux ports and also wasn't
changed for many years.  I wasn't aware it's different from the Irix's
one.  Ralf, you have some experience with Irix -- could you comment on it? 

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