Re: Old PLT in elf64-alpha via ld --traditional-format?

[cgd at sibyte dot com (Chris G. Demetriou)]

rth@redhat.com (Richard Henderson) writes:
> Moreover, I really consider the plt format change to be a bug fix.
> It was silly of me not to have thought things through when first
> designing the format, but I _did_ warn cgd about this needed change
> almost 4 years ago.  I'm astonished that nothing at all has been
> done to address this in the meantime.

I punted on it for a while, and then ceased being the NetBSD/alpha
port maintainer in probably '97, and probably didn't properly pass the
baton...  of course, for a while, there was no replacement
NetBSD/alpha port maintainer, so nobody to pass the baton too.  8-)

Really, in some sense, this is an artifact of NetBSD diverging so far
from stock tools and/or lagging behind in upgrading.  Kinda lame.  8-)


chris
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