[Patch] was: MIPS assembler no longer "combines symbols in different segments"...
David Daney
ddaney@avtrex.com
Mon Feb 28 19:52:00 GMT 2005
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>
>> I agree with this: it's an ABI-breaking change to suddenly remove support
>>for a reloc type. It may be desirable for more modern versions of the
>
>
> It's not a breaking change -- the relocation has never been a part of the
> Linux ABI. It has simply been abused. If you use an undocumented
> feature, you shouldn't be surprised if that feature disappears one day,
> sorry.
>
What do you consider a "breaking change"? I don't care if it is part of
some official ABI document. It is part of a de facto ABI that is used
by GCC-3.3.x
By removing this relocation, you cannot use binutils 2.16 with
GCC-3.3.x. In a perfect world, Binutils 2.15 would have had a
non-broken linker and we would keep using it. But we don't live in a
perfect world.
I don't see what is gained in making binutils 2.16 unsuable with GCC-3.3.x.
David Daney.
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