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Re: [PATCH][GOLD] Fix some issues in building ARM Linux kernel with gold.


Sure.  I can add the long option.

-Doug

2010/3/30 Matt Rice <ratmice@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Doug Kwan (Ãö®¶¼w) <dougkwan@google.com> wrote:
>
>> It adds new options -EL, -EB,
>> --no-warn-mismatch and -p.  The -p option really does nothing and is
>> provided for compatibility with ld.
>
> Hey Doug,
>
> could you maybe add the long version of -p it looks to me like it is
> '-no-pipeline-knowledge'
>
> I don't suppose you know which toolchains out there require this -p
> option (to actually do something)
> and if they are still in use (iirc its been 10 years since this option
> did anything in gnu ld),
> I had implemented the solaris version of -p (a different option, under
> a different name due to this clash, solaris unfortunately provides no
> long option equivalent),
>
> anyhow, the reason i ask is one potential deprecation process could be
> switching the kernel to pass the long option then deprecate -p freeing
> up the short option for later reclaimation, this might not work if any
> of these mystery toolchains implement -p without the
> -no-pipeline-knowledge option
> but then if someone gets -no-pipeline-knowledge unrecognized argument
> we'll know that we are at least passing this option for some good
> reason.
> i'm not really sure what the effects of outright removal would be were
> the option required so, this less invasive change of moving to the
> long option
> would at least give people an error message
>
> of you I'm just asking for the long option, and if you have further
> info on this to pass it along, and if you think this sounds good i can
> send a patch to the kernel switching to the long option.
>


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