Get rid of some ugly code
Ian Lance Taylor
ian@zembu.com
Sat Jun 23 17:39:00 GMT 2001
Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> I'm not really happy about the kludge though. See the FIXME below.
> As far as I can make out from ChangeLogs, Ian made a change to emit
> relocs in debugging sections on 1996-12-05, which was negated by
> Ulrich Drepper on 1998-12-01. A pity public binutils CVS doesn't go
> back that far so I could see exactly what the patches do. Grumble.
> Anyway, that must have caused a problem, which Richard Henderson had
> a go at fixing on 1998-12-10, further refined by H.J. Lu on 2000-04-20.
I've never grasped this issue.
See
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00636.html
By the way, I see that you checked in the 2000-04-20 patch, although
you credit it to H.J.
Ian
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