From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32298 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2005 03:37:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 32262 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2005 03:37:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dair.pair.com) (209.68.1.49) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 Feb 2005 03:37:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 92518 invoked by uid 20157); 17 Feb 2005 03:37:44 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:02:00 -0000 From: Hans-Peter Nilsson X-X-Sender: hp@dair.pair.com To: Alan Modra cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Making generic ld testcases pass on more targets In-Reply-To: <20050217032220.GU10128@bubble.modra.org> Message-ID: References: <20050216115635.GR10128@bubble.modra.org> <20050217032220.GU10128@bubble.modra.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2005-02/txt/msg00390.txt.bz2 On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Alan Modra wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:31:25PM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: > > But please make the name less collision-prone. How about > > ".gnu.dc.a"? > > Hmm. Do you know of some other assembler that uses dc.a? Nope. But I know of some other that use .dc.C (C=b,w). It just seems painlessly safer to use a unique prefix, now that we don't *have* to cast *any* doubt whatsoever of colliding with any pre-existing convention. I mean, why not? > > While you're at it, some fixed-size relocs would be nice too: > > ".gnu.dc.1" .. ".gnu.dc.4" (and 8 for 64-bitters). > > You already have them. Lots of 'em. See read.c potable. But still only with the "dc." prefix and similar. brgds, H-P