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Re: IA64 gas is broken


On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 00:36, Jan Beulich wrote:
> The question thus is: Should the assembler continue to violate the spec
> and allow .xdata to create sections (in which case the second change
> would be at least desirable), or should it be fixed, in which case
> probably calling obj_elf_change_section might not be necessary at all
> anymore, thus allowing to free the allocated name string.

HJ's example comes from glibc.  Since we are trying to avoid
unnecessarily breaking backwards compatibility, that means we can only
emit a warning here for now.  So we have to go with the former solution
for now, which means continuing to create sections while warning about
it, and adding a comment to indicate a possible future cleanup which
makes this an error and allows us to free the string.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com



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