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Re: [RFA] Don't warn when using ld --wrap and code in Thumb-state on ARM

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 05:07:20PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi Ian, I don't suppose you have a testcase for "setting up an
> > indirection from a symbol to itself" in
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00068.html
> >
> > I'm wondering if we still need the early exit from
> > _bfd_elf_merge_symbol.
> 
> Gee, you're optimistic.  No, I don't have a test case.

:-)

>  I would be
> quite surprised if it were anything complicated.  It was probably
> something found by the regular linker testsuite, so you could try
> simply removing the test to see what happens.

I did, and saw no failures on i586-linux or powerpc-linux, which is
why I was wondering if the code is needed any more.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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