Binutuls is broken now.

[H . J . Lu]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 07:47:17PM +0200, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:43:49 -0700
> > From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 07:39:47PM +0200, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > > It's not obviously correct.  How about letting a global
> > 
> > What is wrong with my patch?
> 
> Whether relocatable link from binary is *supposed* to be
> supported.
> 

The Linux kernel has been using it for a long time. I believe it
should just work with the proper linker script. Can you give me one
reason why it won't work?

> > Is that ok to back out yours until we
> > find a solution acceptable to everyone?
> 
> No.  Why back it out?  There are no binutils guidelines that

Because your patch changes the linker behavior and breaks the existing
code which uses it. Unless the corrent behavior is broken, I don't
think we should change it.


H.J.