incongruency in architecture mismatch linker warnings/errors

[Alan Modra]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:09:25PM -0800, Doug Evans wrote:
> It's odd that if the architectures (or mach's) are incompatible during
> a relocatable link it's automatically an error whereas in a final link
> it's only a warning and then only if the user asks for it.
> 
> Is there any reasoning behind this?

We might be able to use a "foreign" input file in a final link if the
generic linker support for that particular input is good enough.
For relocatable output, we'd need to translate relocs from one format
to another..

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre