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Re: [PATCH] Add configure flag to enable gnu hash style by default.


Hi,

On Wed, 12 Jul 2017, Romain Geissler wrote:

> This small patch adds a new --with-default-hash-style={sysv|gnu|both} 
> configure option and switches the default hash-style to "gnu" rather 
> than "sysv" for the ELF linker. glibc has support for GNU hash style for 
> a long time.

While that is true I don't think binutils should emit ELF files that 
aren't compliant with the ELF ABI by default.  So if anything the default 
should be 'both'.


Ciao,
Michael.


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