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Re: [PATCH] Add configure flag to enable gnu hash style by default.

From: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>
To: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>, Romain Geissler <romain dot geissler at gmail dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:51:31 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add configure flag to enable gnu hash style by default.
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References: <20170712215007.22877-1-romain.geissler@gmail.com> <alpine.LSU.2.20.1707131305100.12691@wotan.suse.de>

On 13.07.2017 13:06, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2017, Romain Geissler wrote:
> 
>> This small patch adds a new --with-default-hash-style={sysv|gnu|both} 
>> configure option and switches the default hash-style to "gnu" rather 
>> than "sysv" for the ELF linker. glibc has support for GNU hash style for 
>> a long time.
> 
> While that is true I don't think binutils should emit ELF files that 
> aren't compliant with the ELF ABI by default.  So if anything the default 
> should be 'both'.

The last Debian release shipped with a binutils with hash-style set to gnu, and
the two previous ones with a binutils with hash-style set to both.  Until now I
didn't get any complaints about the current gnu setting.

Matthias

References:
- [PATCH] Add configure flag to enable gnu hash style by default.
  - From: Romain Geissler
- Re: [PATCH] Add configure flag to enable gnu hash style by default.
  - From: Michael Matz

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