Re: All those old patches.

[Momchil Velikov <velco at fadata dot bg>]

Momchil Velikov wrote:
> 
> Geoff Keating wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 10:10:10 +0200
> > > From: Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>
> > > http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/2000-04/msg00003.html
> > >   This patch fixes a linker fatal signal.
> >
> > I don't like this patch.  Why initialize the table there?  There
> > should be no need to initialize the table in multiple places all
> > through elf32-ppc.c.  Instead, find a place before the table could
> > ever be used, initialise it there, and delete the other
> > initialisations.
> 
> OK. I'll look at that.

OK, I have looked at that ...
I'd propose getting rid of `ppc_elf_howto_raw' and
`ppc_elf_howto_init()'
and statically initializing `ppc_elf_howto_table'. 

Alternatively, in addition to applying the patch
we can remove the howto table initialization in
`ppc_elf_relocate_section'
-- resulting in the same count of invocasions of
`ppc_elf_howto_init' -- at least not making stuff any worse.  

How do you think ?

Regards,
-velco