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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