[Bug libc/2671] On powerpc the order of parameters in weak_alias is significant

["malitzke at metronets dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

------- Additional Comments From malitzke at metronets dot com  2006-05-19 22:00 -------
Well, after rebuilding most of X11R6 and reinstalling mozilla (2.7.12) that
problem, apparently, misinterpretation of some character went away.

Going back to the weak_alias issue. Now, after CVS updates to glibc, svn updates
to gcc-4.2 (main trunk) and rebuilt binutils the order of the parameters has
become irrelevant. I always thought it was really a gcc issue but after hand
editing the four *.S by hand I thought it would be helpful to the glibc
community to have a little patch.

Again, it might be only of temporary interest to know that it is necessary to
change VERSION=0605xx in the binutils bfd, gas, and gprof configure files to
something like =2.17.  Otherwise, the configuration of glibc will term ld and as
as being too old.

Finally in reading the equivalents to PR 333 (my PR 2672 was made equivalent to
333) I see that similarily to the gcc in-crowd, people from the user community
are not really wellcome. At over 70 years, but as a former assembly language
real-time systems programmer I can take a hint and will restrict myself to cases
like ICE and segmentation errors. That issue in PR 2672 will either fade away or
I will find a way to fake it out and continue building my own libcs, as I have
been doing for a long time. I started with gcc-1.4.x and the Berkeley libraries;
hacking both for use on SCO's Xenix.

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