Re: [patch] Move additional section types to common code

[Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>]

On Wednesday 08 September 2004 19:50, James E Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 09:06, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > Given that you are also modifying IA64 specific code, please could you
> > also test for regressions with an ia64-elf toolchain ?
>
> I don't know if ia64-elf still works.  It was implemented before we had
> working linux support, and hasn't been touched since.  There was no need
> for it once we could build linux toolchains.  Also, unfortunately, I
> never got permission from Intel to release the newlib/libgloss support,
> so there has never been a fully working ia64-elf toolchain on
> sources.redhat.com.
>
> Anyways, the patch is OK with me, and it is easy enough for me to do a
> quick ia64-linux binutils build and check with the patch, which passed
> without any problems.

I've verified that teh patch passes both the biuntils and gcc testsuites on 
ia64-hpux, and applied it.

Paul