[PATCH v2] alpha, ld: remove -taso option
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Mon Feb 10 17:58:33 GMT 2025
Hi Ivan,
> The -taso switch was quite useful 25 years ago for porting 32-bit
> code with broken integer-pointer casting. Not anymore. The EF_ALPHA_32BIT
> Linux support is going to be dropped in kernel v6.14 [1], NetBSD and OpenBSD
> never had it, so there is no point in keeping the -taso option around.
This part of your patch is approved. Please apply it or ask someone to apply it for you.
> Also remove alpha special case that uses -taso from gdb.base/dump.exp
> in gdb testsuite.
I cannot actually approve this part of the patch since it is for the GDB sources and
not the binutils. But I am sure that some kind GDB person will be happy to give it a
review and approval.
Cheers
Nick
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