[Patch] ld config bits for i860 coff target

Andrew Cagney ac131313@redhat.com
Fri Aug 15 16:00:00 GMT 2003


> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:58:26AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>> How quickly people forget :-(
>> 
>> The developer tools came to use specific generated versions of those 
>> files because people encountered host dependant problems with the 
>> generators.  Guarenteed that the generated files being run, were 
>> identical across all fronts.
> 
> 
> I didn't forget.  If we re-encounter such problems then we can go back
> to having blessed tarballs.  Your "idealistic" goal is a lot more
> realistic than you seem to think; the autotools have matured a great
> deal.

Note also that any GCC developer's opinions need to be heavily, if not 
totally discounted when it comes to GDB.  Its GDB, and not GCC that will 
get to sort out GDB's mess.

I'd like to see hard evidence that the proposal works before considering 
an implementation.

Andrew




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