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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:51:00 -0000
From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>, Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>,
        Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: .eh_frame section on alpha
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:14:03AM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Presumably yes.  But I assume that the feeling is that invoking an 
> assembler switch is simpler for the user than requiring them to write or 
> edit linker scripts.

If you're writing boot loaders, you're already writing linker scripts.


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