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Re: bfd is broken
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:54:51PM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote:
>
> The configuration I used to test the original patch was x86 Red Hat
> Linux 7 with all updates applied, using the Red Hat GNUPro 00r1
> compiler, without special configure flags; and the bootstrap test
> passed. When I got your message I ran a build with the toplevel
> binutils CVS tree, the latest bundled compiler gcc-2.96-85, and your two
> special configure flags; and the bootstrap test still passed. In fact
> all tests pass or xfail.
>
> I wouldn't expect SEC_EXCLUDE to be used much when building ld. How
> did you determine that it was my patch?
Backing out your patch fixes ld. Can you tell me how to reproduce your
bug? The .c/.o/.s files are fine.
>
> Can you be more specific about your system?
>
Some string constances have bogus values. The only differences are I
am using gcc 2.96-99 and binutils 2.11.92.0.12.3.
H.J.