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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!serval!phys1.physics.wsu.edu!hlu From: hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: gcc-2.2.2 patches for BSD/386 Message-ID: <1992Jul14.195625.13898@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: 14 Jul 92 19:56:25 GMT Article-I.D.: serval.1992Jul14.195625.13898 References: <1992Jul12.223225.17128@serval.net.wsu.edu> <6939@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1992Jul13.224557.21063@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1992Jul14.083052.18266@rtf.bt.co.uk> Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Washington State University Lines: 17 In article <1992Jul14.083052.18266@rtf.bt.co.uk>, duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain) writes: |> In article <1992Jul13.224557.21063@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu) writes: |> > |> >Is GNU binutils 1.9 compatible with the old GNU ld? |> > |> |> Yes, but it's hell of a lot larger, because it uses the GNU BFD |> library. It also adds a label `__DYNAMIC' to every executable |> for some unknown reason (this is hard coded into one of linkers |> script files (i386aout.sc) I think -- I removed this). You are talking about 1.9x. I am asking about 1.9. Ther are very different. I know 1.9x is 10 times larger than 1.9. H.J. -- Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.