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Re: PR5900

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:51:57 +1030
Subject: Re: PR5900
References: <20080312083240.GC19543@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20080312132022.GA9993@lucon.org> <6dc9ffc80803121413y1fc3a0fbq65cf79c73e8166db@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:13:02PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> 	* elf.c (assign_section_numbers): Check if number of sections
> 	>= SHN_LORESERVE.

Hmm, ld will have attempted to use at least 5 terabytes of memory
before we hit this error.  Do you really think it is worth adding this
check?

> 	* elfcode.h (elf_object_p): Likewise.

Error messages are not appropriate for got_wrong_format_error where
you might try multiple targets and get the same error multiple times.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

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