From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDB283858D33 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2023 17:15:58 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org BDB283858D33 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1677690957; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=6EUeiCX6tMrP5mulR3aqXXSHu9hmuKkz+8icqD9ANeU=; b=VT6QREDuBH7bHXNgA/K94+uR28Ec4BEpV9Zrng7wrqh6Dw7YA+rb+Yse/FxAApB5iqUCC1 eGw4RAn8HmnkoZH5VTqiTD1a2VpysB/x5+YhS+x2YY4KaQzDDKAsRQ2jShYYfZfnXD0Xu2 FkviVbmxsBTl1nENHdsUXqEnVmTJTUI= Received: from mail-wr1-f69.google.com (mail-wr1-f69.google.com [209.85.221.69]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-29-8xiWMP9fPK239PxuuJJKPw-1; Wed, 01 Mar 2023 12:15:54 -0500 X-MC-Unique: 8xiWMP9fPK239PxuuJJKPw-1 Received: by mail-wr1-f69.google.com with SMTP id l5-20020a5d6745000000b002c91cb49949so2681597wrw.14 for ; Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:15:53 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; t=1677690952; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=6EUeiCX6tMrP5mulR3aqXXSHu9hmuKkz+8icqD9ANeU=; b=Vc+Kd8ZIoDIKkjfOXI9A2PbE9WQGdEaN0RtVHZvpopNHbuSBuYMsrAI7+PoHfOITu7 jatuuMZSufyFQC1zVxo8EQWk29khY6oQ3HKB1PCUW3LOf7rytOebm3BXO1vCu6cITmbZ lCVfExR62Oi4ItnGM7SF/OUcIJCeuNmCgrmWHjeeOagitSc22NO5eVE+KEH2i/PIi5xc 8gtm8AAhcvxrQG5s/z+vh13b3bkdPBT1p17QuTpkZ3VO9BD/epZ41CdRiXPnSNLRExJn KZpBqtLEbodD93RgRJDXi0lVabmLmdAlm0/98p8o5a6VqzjiGrlsBQaVILVCJEjjuza0 8/SA== X-Gm-Message-State: AO0yUKWISr2Zh2azwZafH8qqVuZEnmoKY+RMrYaCIBcFi9pC+Co0OnA8 bHzbW1SAz9zuqFj7q9QhLkKj6duo45KJOkA0OQFkRNGwBNa59LMiWPrCvRFtcHwQfUzt9hGdj6p eumjPqZzwHISCdlbnzaAssn8= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6000:81e:b0:2c4:489:fe93 with SMTP id bt30-20020a056000081e00b002c40489fe93mr11858800wrb.21.1677690952327; Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:15:52 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Smtp-Source: AK7set/vXmmaK2lL3hhk64LxGQ868LxKjkADQGQ4USHSL5nauEJUGsLZvli5VB+YynuEHvq3uUMB4A== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6000:81e:b0:2c4:489:fe93 with SMTP id bt30-20020a056000081e00b002c40489fe93mr11858784wrb.21.1677690952011; Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:15:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.18] ([79.123.86.193]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y18-20020a5d4ad2000000b002c5584d0e3dsm13189226wrs.24.2023.03.01.09.15.51 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:15:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 17:15:51 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.8.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/11] DIGEST: LICENSING To: Ulf Samuelsson Cc: Binutils References: <20230301144756.1847278-1-binutils@emagii.com> <20230301144756.1847278-2-binutils@emagii.com> <373d5a6b-a661-1987-8154-c799dfc59ba6@redhat.com> <955abc7b-2f23-a53f-1a74-fb9bd6d2c2e0@emagii.com> From: Nick Clifton In-Reply-To: <955abc7b-2f23-a53f-1a74-fb9bd6d2c2e0@emagii.com> X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Language: en-GB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,NICE_REPLY_A,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: Hi Ulf, >> There are two GNU linkers - ld (aka ld.bfd) and gold (aka ld.gold). Since >> you are not patching gold I would suggest moving the COPYING.LIBRC file into >> the ld/ sub-dirctory.  Or submitting patches for gold as well as ld ... :-) >> > I never used the ld.gold linker. > > What is this doing? The same thing as the ld.bfd linker. :-) Except not... It is an alternative linker that is meant to be faster and better than the bfd linker. But it does have two important restrictions, one of which I think will be a deal-breaker for you. Firstly it only supports ELF based targets, and secondly it does not use linker scripts. Instead it lays out code on its own, based upon some internal heuristics. Cheers Nick