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Re: src/bfd ChangeLog elfxx-mips.c
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: Thiemo Seufer <ths at networkno dot de>
- Cc: hjl at sourceware dot org, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:06:18 -0700
- Subject: Re: src/bfd ChangeLog elfxx-mips.c
- References: <20070321040310.28131.qmail@sourceware.org> <20070321071837.GF2311@networkno.de>
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:18:37AM +0000, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> hjl@sourceware.org wrote:
> > CVSROOT: /cvs/src
> > Module name: src
> > Changes by: hjl@sourceware.org 2007-03-21 04:03:10
> >
> > Modified files:
> > bfd : ChangeLog elfxx-mips.c
> >
> > Log message:
> > 2003-03-19 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
> >
> > PR ld/4208
> > * elfxx-mips.c (_bfd_mips_elf_relocate_section): Report missing
> > matching LO16 relocation for HI16 relocation.
> >
> > Patches:
> > http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/bfd/ChangeLog.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.3774&r2=1.3775
> > http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/bfd/elfxx-mips.c.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.196&r2=1.197
>
> I believe this is not helpful. What will people do now with their
> mildly broken gcc and no fix/update for it? (If there was a specific
> fix to gcc post-4.1 which ensures ABI-conformant behaviour then I
> missed it.)
>
The point is linker shouldn't fail without giving a clue why. If
linker no long fails for this case, the while error handling
can be removed, including the error message.
H.J.