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Re: The current gas is broken (Re: The current binutils in CVS is broken on Linux/mips)
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 01:13:57PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> It was ugly. I am afraid your patch may have broken other targets in
> some very strange ways.
Accepted. However, the breakage ought to be in places where target
code hacks around reloc processing brain-damage. The aim of my
patch, and the bfd_install_relocation rewrite if I ever get around
to it, is to remove all these horrible unmaintainable hacks.
See this comment in tc-mips.c
/* This code was generated using trial and error and so is
fragile and not trustworthy. If you change it, you should
rerun the elf-rel, elf-rel2, and empic testcases and ensure
they still pass. */
Yikes!
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Alan Modra
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