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Re: [PATCH] Re: -taso support in LD
- To: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink at jurassic dot park dot msu dot ru>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: -taso support in LD
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 09:41:26 -0800
- Cc: Ken Block USG <block at zk3 dot dec dot com>,binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, hjl at gnu dot org
- References: <388625B9.E5037681@zk3.dec.com> <20000121193504.A17424@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 07:35:04PM +0300, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 03:59:37PM -0500, Ken Block USG wrote:
> > Ivan Kokshaysky posted a cool patch to get GNU LD to support -taso which
> > on a 64 bit platform jams the application into the bottom 32 bits. This
> > can help portability a lot. I've heard part of the problem porting
> > netscape to Alpha Linux is that it is not 64 bit clean. This feature has
>
> I'm not sure about netscape, but it definitely helps Quake to run
> on Alpha/Linux ;-)
>
> > existed on Tru64/Digital Unix for a long time. Any possibility of
> > getting it checked in to CVS? Or the linux distribution?
> >
>
> It would be nice, so I repost the patch against current CVS here.
>
Thanks. Sorry for the delay. It will be in the next Linux binutils.
H.J.