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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!

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre


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