[Patch] was: MIPS assembler no longer "combines symbols in different segments"...

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Mon Feb 28 19:57:00 GMT 2005


----Original Message----
>From: macro On Behalf Of Maciej W. Rozycki 
>Sent: 28 February 2005 16:30

>  Old .o files still work and will work for the foreseeable future as BFD
> still supports these relocations and it's not going to be changed -- have
> you actually looked at the comment I've referred to.  It's gas support
> that we discuss and that means it only affects source code.

  Oops, pardon me, I wasn't following quite closely enough.  That of course
invalidates any concern I would have had.  Retaining the support in bfd but
changing the upper layers of the toolchain to not generate such relocs is of
course exactly the sort of approach I accepted as reasonable!


    cheers,
      DaveK
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