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Re: Committed: fix undefweak hidden references for CRIS


On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:10:40AM +0100, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> The bug caught a bfd_assert, which *REALLY* isn't helpful, as
> this is just a call to _bfd_error_handler and then linking
> continues with *no* exit error.  I've changed bfd_assert locally
> to do like bfd_abort and also call _exit (EXIT_FAILURE), and I'd
> like to poll interest in doing that or the equivalent for the
> FSF code too.  If nothing else, a helpful code comment why it
> isn't done.  I guess letting it continue is helpful for some
> situations and bfd users, but not the common case of the linker.
> Perhaps do it optionally, default on for the linker?

I can't find the message now, but I've suggested this too.
I think having the linker abort would be a big improvement.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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