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Re: gas 2.10.91 from 20000920 cvs is broken under hpux 10.20
- To: John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- Subject: Re: gas 2.10.91 from 20000920 cvs is broken under hpux 10.20
- From: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>
- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 14:53:11 +1100 (EST)
- cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, David Huggins-Daines <dhd at linuxcare dot com>
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, John David Anglin wrote:
> Regarding the #ifdef OBJ_ELF, if it was in as per dhd's original patch,
> would this work for --enable-targets=all?
Yes, because the assembler is built only for the primary target.
> Another question. The HP linker has a -O option which eliminates
> unnecessary addil's (and also dead procedures). Could this upset
> the relative branches built by the assembler if one of the eliminated
> addil's was between the branch and target?
You probably know more about the HP linker than I do. I imagine that
removing an addil between a branch and its target is a fairly common
occurrence, so the HP linker should adjust the branch offset.
Alan Modra
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