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Re: Avoid 64-bit Solaris/SPARC -gstabs link failures (PR ld/12152)

From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
Cc: Rainer Orth <ro at cebitec dot uni-bielefeld dot de>, David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:54:54 +0100
Subject: Re: Avoid 64-bit Solaris/SPARC -gstabs link failures (PR ld/12152)
References: <201203022253.34704.ebotcazou@adacore.com> <yddzkbvrq0b.fsf@manam.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <mcr8vjedc8w.fsf@dhcp-172-18-216-180.mtv.corp.google.com>

> Since 64-bit -gstabs won't actually work in practice, it seems
> preferable that the tests not run or, if run, fail.

That would have been a valid reasoning a decade ago.  But we have accepted this 
for at least a decade so let's choose the easiest path and spend our time on 
more interesting things than discussing the handling of STABS on SPARC 64-bit.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

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