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Re: [PATCH] Add configure flag to enable gnu hash style by default.
- From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- To: Romain Geissler <romain dot geissler at gmail dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:06:20 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add configure flag to enable gnu hash style by default.
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- References: <20170712215007.22877-1-romain.geissler@gmail.com>
Hi,
On Wed, 12 Jul 2017, Romain Geissler wrote:
> This small patch adds a new --with-default-hash-style={sysv|gnu|both}
> configure option and switches the default hash-style to "gnu" rather
> than "sysv" for the ELF linker. glibc has support for GNU hash style for
> a long time.
While that is true I don't think binutils should emit ELF files that
aren't compliant with the ELF ABI by default. So if anything the default
should be 'both'.
Ciao,
Michael.