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Re: Support for ELF's STT_COMMON symbol type

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 03:41:16PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
>   * Has a configure time option to enable the setting of the STT_COMMON type on 
> symbols in generated executables.  By default this option is disabled, so the 
> linker should continue to work with the current crop of loaders.

I don't really like this :-(  Different people's builds of binutils
will trigger different bugs for the same target.  I suppose it's
reasonable, but please remove this:

+  # XXX FIXME: Add code to test the loader here.

Having binutils built on a new system by default produce binaries that
would not work on older systems would be a real pain to figure out.


-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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