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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: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 00:00:07 +0100
Subject: Re: Avoid 64-bit Solaris/SPARC -gstabs link failures (PR ld/12152)
References: <201203021922.50466.ebotcazou@adacore.com> <201203022253.34704.ebotcazou@adacore.com> <20120302.170551.1043619139165503347.davem@davemloft.net>

> I see no value in blindly allowing relocations to overflow when we
> know that when it occurs something is very wrong.  Failing and
> emitting an error is the right thing for 'ld' to do.

The consensus for years has been to silently accept this, so turning the tables 
in 2012 doesn't make much sense I think.  It's just debug info after all.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

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