From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Ken Block USG <block@zk3.dec.com>, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com, hjl@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: -taso support in LD
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 09:41:00 -0000
Message-id: <20000129094125.A12878@lucon.org>
References: <388625B9.E5037681@zk3.dec.com> <20000121193504.A17424@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
X-SW-Source: 2000-01/msg00186.html

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.