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From: James E Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: IA64 gas is broken
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108424905.7874.37.camel@aretha.corp.specifixinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s21062d4.067@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-14 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-14 11:02 Jan Beulich
2005-02-15 12:18 ` James E Wilson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-11 22:30 H. J. Lu
2005-02-12  0:20 ` H. J. Lu

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