sparc gold support...
David Miller
davem@davemloft.net
Mon Mar 31 04:33:00 GMT 2008
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:16:45 -0700 (PDT)
> Basically, if you have a mix of EM_SPARC and EM_SPARC32PLUS objects,
> it should link successfully and the resulting object is marked as
> EM_SPARC32PLUS. Every GNU/Linux sparc system is going to run into
> this because:
>
> /usr/lib/crt1.o is EM_SPARC
> /usr/lib/crti.o is EM_SPARC32PLUS
>
> So linking anything requires allowing this kind of mixing situation.
>
> I tried to synthesize this with different target selector
> instantiations, but couldn't get it to work such that the object.cc
> compatibility test would pass. :-(
Nevermind, I just saw the "EM_NONE" facility the target
selector has for situations like this :-)
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