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Re: Avoid 64-bit Solaris/SPARC -gstabs link failures (PR ld/12152)

From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
To: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, ro at cebitec dot uni-bielefeld dot de
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 19:22:50 +0100
Subject: Re: Avoid 64-bit Solaris/SPARC -gstabs link failures (PR ld/12152)
References: <yddboogywds.fsf@manam.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <20120301.161224.1731826347371026119.davem@davemloft.net>

> I'd like to know why it's OK to just let the relocation overflow in
> these cases, doesn't it make the debugging information unusable and
> incorrect?

Yes, STABS aren't (generally) usable with 64-bit architectures.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

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