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Re: [RFC PATCH] MIPS allow branch to undefined symbol...
- From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- To: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 16:26:58 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] MIPS allow branch to undefined symbol...
- References: <4085AB10.504@avtrex.com>
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 15:58, David Daney wrote:
> I have been hacking around in my boot monitor (MMON) and was not able to
> build because gas (at least in thebinutils-2_15-branch) currently does
> not allow branches to undefined symbols or to symbols in other sections.
>
> The attached patch adds a command line option that turns off this
> behavior. This should be OK, because if there are real problems, the
> linker complains about it.
I remember we turned this off a while back because it caused problems
(IIRC) in shared libraries or in the kernel.
I can't remember well at the moment, but it should be in the archives if
you look. I'm definitely not in favor of this unless the problems
mentioned there are fixed.
-eric
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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>