i386-pc-nto-qnx patch

[H . J . Lu]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:58:59AM -0400, Graeme Peterson wrote:
> About the ELF interpreter.  We have a different loader version in
> 6.1+ than in pre 6.1.  We handle this in gcc (specs) and in our
> front end 'qcc' (conf files).
> 
> This is how we have done it and will probably continue to do it.
> It is how we ship our tools chain, and if we need to update the
> loader again, then the specs and conf files for that OS version
> will reflect it.
> 
> It seems to me that it is six of one, half a dozen of the other as to
> whether this gets done in gcc or binutils.  My preference is gcc,
> because we need to have a QNX specific specs file anyway, this is
> how we already do it, and this limits the number of QNX specific 
> changes that need to be rolled in and maintained in binutils.
> 

Linux passes "-dynamic-linker /lib/ld.xxxx" to ld from gcc. I think
it is more flexible. We strongly discourage using ld directly for
generating DSOs and executables on Linux.


H.J.