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Re: PATCH: Fix the linker script support

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:15:30PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> 
> > In case of mips, it is
> > 
> > 	. = 0x0 + SIZEOF_HEADERS;
> 
> Whatever.
> 
> > I don't believe we should force people to upgrade ld just because
> > glibc can't handle the extra `0x'.
> 
> HJ, you know better than most people that one benefits a lot from
> using a newer linker, *especially* on MIPS.

On the other side, I don't think that 0x?0* instead if 0 hurts that much
or makes the Makefile more unreadable. If mips glibc works with last
binutils release, then I think glibc should be changed too (as well
as ld so that this is unified).

	Jakub
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