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Re: PATCH: Linker is broken


On Fri, 14 May 2004, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> This patch will break linking if .eh_frame is read-write (e.g. with
> older GCCs, e.g. all GCC 2.x .eh_frames need relocations and are read-write,
> with newer GCCs they are read-write unless configure found it is desirable
> to make them read-only).

It's also target-dependent (i.e. can happen for newer gcc's as
well for some targets -- and wrt. the expected follow-up
question, when the read-only scheme takes up more space, that's
not necessarily lame or certain to change).

brgds, H-P


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