From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19882 invoked by alias); 21 Oct 2006 19:44:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 19869 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Oct 2006 19:44:31 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca (HELO hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca) (132.246.100.193) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:44:30 +0000 Received: from hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca (hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k9LJiFWL010510; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:44:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dave@localhost) by hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id k9LJiE77010509; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:44:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200610211944.k9LJiE77010509@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] [patch] Remove magic constant from gas/tc-hppa.c To: jbailey@raspberryginger.com (Jeff Bailey) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:04:00 -0000 From: "John David Anglin" Cc: matthew@wil.cx, binutils@sources.redhat.com, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org In-Reply-To: <1161457332.7854.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> from "Jeff Bailey" at Oct 21, 2006 03:02:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-10/txt/msg00234.txt.bz2 > I opted for eliminating the DEFAULT_LEVEL because it's not clear at a > glance what it's a level of, it's only used in that one place, and the > construct isn't used in any of the other architectures. See pa_level. The magic numbers end up in the .o files. The hpux linker will issue errors and warnings if you try to link an inconsistent set of object files. The values appear in various places such as bfd/archures.c, bfd/libhppa.h, ... Dave -- J. David Anglin dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6602)