[RFC PATCH] MIPS allow branch to undefined symbol...

[Eric Christopher]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 15:58, David Daney wrote:
> I have been hacking around in my boot monitor (MMON) and was not able to 
> build because gas (at least in thebinutils-2_15-branch) currently does 
> not allow branches to undefined symbols or to symbols in other sections.
> 
> The attached patch adds a command line option that turns off this 
> behavior.  This should be OK, because if there are real problems, the 
> linker complains about it.

I remember we turned this off a while back because it caused problems
(IIRC) in shared libraries or in the kernel.

I can't remember well at the moment, but it should be in the archives if
you look. I'm definitely not in favor of this unless the problems
mentioned there are fixed.

-eric

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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>