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Re: ld won't complain if asked to link obj files of different arches

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:28:46 -0800
Subject: Re: ld won't complain if asked to link obj files of different arches
References: <or4r9jkawd.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> <m3smwwh1ss.fsf@north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 07:40:19PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> It is not desirable, but I suspect that if we change the behavior
> something will break.  ie there are probably projects somewhere that
> need this behavior.

Seems to me it would be best to default to not allowing this, 
and to add a link switch that explicitly allows it, and to not
confuse the issue on a per-port basis.

r~

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