[ping] [patch] ARM support for long calls

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Dan, Hi Christophe,

 > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> Would one of you mind adding a NEWS entry?  Things we don't tell users
> about get overlooked :-)
> 
> Also, there is a new ld command line option with no documentation, and
> the manual should answer the question "does this version of ld support
> long branches on ARM?" now.

Oops - my bad - I should have spotted this when reviewing the patch.

How do you guys feel about the attached documentation patch ?

I was not sure if it is worth going into more detail about when the 
linker should be allowed to choose its own stub placement and when it is 
worth using the new command line option.  Also I am not clear, even 
after looking at the code, as to what will happen when 
--stub-group-size=N is used and N is smaller than the size of a single 
input section.  Christophe ?

Cheers
   Nick

ld/ChangeLog
2008-05-20  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>

	* ld.texinfo (ARM): Document --stub-group-size= switch.
	* NEWS: Mention new feature.


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