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Re: Binutuls is broken now.


On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 03:44:12PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
> I agree with H.J. that it should be possible to incorporate a binary
> input file in a relocateable link.  We should only prohibit actions
> which we can not support.  That is one we can easily support.
> 
> I haven't tried to figure out whether H.J.'s patch is the best way to
> do this.

I don't think it is the best way. The binary format has no relocation.
But a file with any format can have no relocations. But we just don't
know at that point.

> 
> In fact, we can easily support linking any object file with no
> relocations into a relocateable link.  There may be times when that
> would be convenient for people.

That is true. But I don't think the information we need is available
in lang_check. Maybe the check should be made somewhere else where we
will do relocation across different formats.


H.J.


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