From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14149 invoked by alias); 25 Feb 2011 09:54:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 14136 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Feb 2011 09:54:52 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mel.act-europe.fr (HELO mel.act-europe.fr) (194.98.77.210) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:54:44 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FAACB024B; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:54:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from mel.act-europe.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.eu.adacore.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MK3glTHZcknI; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:54:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from ulanbator.act-europe.fr (ulanbator.act-europe.fr [10.10.1.67]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mel.act-europe.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3EACB0227; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:54:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Sun/Oracle C++ compiler patch Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Tristan Gingold In-Reply-To: <4D66F521.8010902@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:54:00 -0000 Cc: binutils@sourceware.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <50CDB2D0-36A5-48E2-94FE-91F7032F5B0A@adacore.com> References: <4D66F521.8010902@oracle.com> To: Chris Quenelle X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00303.txt.bz2 On Feb 25, 2011, at 1:17 AM, Chris Quenelle wrote: > (ignore the last copy of this email, it had a terrible subject line) >=20 > Hello, >=20 > When the Sun/Oracle C++ compiler was ported to Linux, we started > bundling a patched version of gnu ld to get the necessary treatment > for our exception range sections. I don't believe anyone has tried to > offer this patch upstream, and it would really help us out if we could > use the system linker when running on Linux. I've included the > contents of the patch at the end of this email. Just a suggestion: can you add a comment just before to explain that this i= s for Sun/Oracle C++ compiler ? This is not obvious from the section name. Is the content of this section documented somewhere ? Tristan.