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Re: [PATCH 2/2] gold: enable new dtags by default
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:12:21PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2013 22:42:17 Alan Modra wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:02:31PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > patch 1/2 doesn't change any defaults ... just adds a new flag
> > >
> > > Understood. I only want to add that flag to gold if it is added to
> > > GNU ld. That is, I am deferring the decision about the flag to the
> > > other binutils maintainers.
> >
> > On further thinking about this, I'd be happy with changing the
> > existing flag, --enable-new-dtags, to have the behaviour proposed for
> > --enable-new-dtags-only. As Mike said, the "new" dtags have been
> > around for a mighty long time, and emitting both old and new tags was
> > really only for backward compatibility. Is anyone running a system
> > with a 14 year old glibc? If there is, do they also want the latest
> > binutils?
>
> i'm happy with that course.
OK, consider it approved.
> the new -only flag was merely to keep from rocking
> the boat.
:)
> how do you feel about also enabling --enable-new-dtags by default in ld.bfd ?
I'm not so comfortable with this. After all, the new dtags do have
slightly different meaning to the old ones. I think it would be
better to leave the default as is.
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM