binutils 2.17 branch

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:47:04PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> Seriously, it's still somewhat of a hack.  The fact that we throw away
> syms added for an unneeded lib means I'm relying on nothing
> (eg. backend add_symbol_hook) keeping pointers into the symbol hash
> table apart from the ones I already handle (undefs, sym_hashes).

Yeah, I noticed that.  I see why you did it this way, though, and I
think it will work better now than before - but I'd like it to have
a bit of testing before it goes into a release; Debian folks have
been complaining about bad --as-needed behavior since they discovered
it.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery