From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@stanford.edu>
To: John Marshall <john_marshall@palm.com>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: killing ASM_IDENTIFY_GCC [branch]
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:30:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010411093024.E221@stanford.edu>
References: <20010411002457.A11764@sofia-kovalevskaya.ops.palm.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00619.html

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:24:57AM -0700, John Marshall wrote:
> 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.

Good point.  But it can be done without nearly so much gunk in target
headers.  I'll put it back, I have to rev the patch anyway for GDB's
sake.

zw