From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: John Marshall <john_marshall@palm.com>
To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: killing ASM_IDENTIFY_GCC [branch]
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 00:26:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010411002457.A11764@sofia-kovalevskaya.ops.palm.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00595.html

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I also knocked out the .ident "GCC: (GNU) ..." stuff which is equally
> useless (albeit harmless)

If the patch suggesting this ("[RFA (GCC)] Patch to remove default ELF
definition of ASM_FILE_END" [1]) had engendered any discussion, I was
going to mention that the "GCC: (GNU) ..." stuff can in fact be very
useful when debugging problems involving binary-only libraries from
vendors.  See for example

http://maillist.perforce.com/pipermail/perforce-user/2001-April/005616.html

But no biggie...

    John

[1]  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-03/msg00761.html