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From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
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Subject: Re: gcc-2.2.2 patches for BSD/386
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Date: 15 Jul 92 00:43:37 GMT
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>>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).
Just to be fair to the BFD concept - I believe there is a way to compile BFD
such that only one target description is included instead of all of them. This
could save quite a bit of space.
See the BFD docs if interested.
--
Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
| great idea hits you, and just before you realize
| what is wrong with it.