From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Henderson To: "H . J . Lu" Cc: Nick Clifton , binutils@sources.redhat.com, Ian Lance Taylor Subject: Re: elf_link_hash_entry vs generic_link_hash_entry Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:53:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010828155301.A2925@redhat.com> References: <20010823092140.A15101@lucon.org> <20010823113656.A17692@lucon.org> X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00662.html On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:36:56AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote: > Here is a patch. Ian, as you mentioned, linking directly to S-records > no longer works. [...] > How should we fix it? In general I think it's unfixable. Yes, you were able to come up with something that worked for i386, but not for targets that require non-trivial bookkeeping during final link -- ia64 and alpha come to mind here. Besides, I think such is a waste of time and effort. If you want S-records, we have this nice objcopy utiltity. r~