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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
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On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > Yeah, agreed FWIW.  This was necessary while the feature was relatively
> > new, and while we still supported IRIX as, but I can't see any reasonable
> > justification for using such an ancient binutils with modern GCC.
> > 
> > Getting rid of -mno-explicit-relocs altogether might simplify things.
> 
>  FWIW I tend to agree too, although I think the current mess has to be 
> fixed first (and backported to the release branches) before going forward 
> with the removal.

 And FAOD I think a stub check has to remain even after the removal and 
just cause `configure' to bail out if an unsupported obsolete version of 
GAS has been identified.

  Maciej