GNU as 2.14 on IRIX 6: crashes with shared libs

[Eric Christopher]

> Ok, here's the promised patch.  It has the desired effect, although it
> wasn't clear to me which form to use for the option.  I've chosen and
> documented -pdr/-mno-pdr, but --pdr/--no-pdr work as well.  -mpdr/-mno-pdr
> are another plausible choice; I just couldn't recognize a common pattern
> which option uses which form.
> 

Unfortunately there's no real pattern for the gas only options. I'd lean
toward -m<opt> though.

> This patch may be useful for the 2.14 branch, too, since without it gas is
> pretty useless on IRIX.
> 

Unless you use gld. :)

> Btw., I noticed that -mdebug/-no-mdebug are documented neiter in as --help
> nor in doc/c-mips.texi.
> 

Hmm... I should get to that. Thanks.

OK with the option name change.

Thanks again.

-eric

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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>