new way of generating crt[ni].o [patch]
Andreas Jaeger
aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de
Fri Sep 3 23:52:00 GMT 1999
>>>>> Zack Weinberg writes:
> The new x86 back end wants to generate trampolines to load the PIC
> base register all the time (yes, even with -march=i386). The current
> crt[in] generation can't handle this. So I rewrote it again. This
> version does the split in the object file; it turns out to be much,
> much cleaner that way. On the other hand, it is dependent on more
> gnu-binutils-specific features than before. I'm using binutils
> 2.9.5.0.10, but it ought to work with 2.9.1 and later, at least.
Do I understand your statement correctly that the current gcc cvs
version doesn't correctly build glibc? How severe is the problem?
Andreas
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