PATCH: Generate code for Itanium

[Nick Clifton]

Hi H.J.

>> Is there really nowhere better to put arch-specific ld options?
>> (If there isn't there should be, and IMHO this seems like a good
>> time to do that.)
>
> I am not aware there is a better way. Any suggestion is welcome.

How about holding the variable in a static in the emulation source
code and then in one of the emulation functions passing this flag into
the ia-64 specific code ?  For example see how ld/emultempl/armelf.em
handles the no_pipeline_knowledge switch.

Cheers
        Nick