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Re: Get rid of some ugly code
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 05:38:48PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
>
> > I'm not really happy about the kludge though. See the FIXME below.
> > As far as I can make out from ChangeLogs, Ian made a change to emit
> > relocs in debugging sections on 1996-12-05, which was negated by
> > Ulrich Drepper on 1998-12-01. A pity public binutils CVS doesn't go
> > back that far so I could see exactly what the patches do. Grumble.
> > Anyway, that must have caused a problem, which Richard Henderson had
> > a go at fixing on 1998-12-10, further refined by H.J. Lu on 2000-04-20.
>
> I've never grasped this issue.
>
> See
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00636.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00635.html is interesting
too. Maybe I should just remove the SEC_ALLOC test and see what breaks,
or commit it and wait for the screams. :-)
> By the way, I see that you checked in the 2000-04-20 patch, although
> you credit it to H.J.
I suppose I should take some of the blame then :) It was H.J.'s patch.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2000-04/msg00107.html