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[RFA:] NEWS: Mention change in semantics of DEFINED.
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 05:44:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: [RFA:] NEWS: Mention change in semantics of DEFINED.
Oh yeah, maybe it's a good idea to mention the change in semantics in case
it really *does* bite someone.
Ok?
* NEWS: Mention change in DEFINED semantics.
Index: NEWS
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*** NEWS 30 Sep 2003 16:44:04 -0000 1.38
--- NEWS 11 Oct 2003 09:40:41 -0000
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*** 1,5 ****
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+ * The linker script operator DEFINED() will now yield 1 only for a symbol that
+ is defined before the statement where DEFINED is used.
+
* Improved linker's handling of unresolved symbols. The switch
--unresolved-symbols=<method> has been added to tell the linker when it
should report them and the switch --warn-unresolved-symbols has been added to
brgds, H-P