a patch to set ELF header flags for empty linker output files

Mon Jan 15 17:03:00 GMT 2001

> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:34:59 -0800
> From: Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com>

> While looking at this, I noticed that it was possible to put inconsistent
> object files in an archive.  I am hoping that is not recommended usage.

Regrettably, this is an essential part of the AIX support for powerpc
(.a files can contain both 32-bit and 64-bit shared objects).

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>