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Re: -znocombreloc?


From: Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
Subject: Re: -znocombreloc?
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:58:34 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.90 (berkeley-unix)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 21:36:49 -0800
>> 
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2004-02/msg00278.html
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2003-05/msg00627.html
>> 
>> Looking at recent GCC documentation it appears that this old hack should not 
>> matter now,

Paul, can you please point at the relevant information in the gcc
documentation?

>> so I'm inclined to remove it, as in the proposed patch (attached), 
>> which I tested on Fedora 24 x86-64 but have not installed.
>
> What about other systems: Solaris, *BSD (when they use GNU ld)?  Do
> they also not need this?

nocombreloc doesn't seem to be needed on OpenBSD/amd64, using gcc and ld
from the base system (4.2.1 and 2.17, respectively).  I've asked
for reports on other archs (emacs-25.1.90 + a patch to disable the ld
flag).

> Andreas, you introduced the use of this switch back in Sep 2001; do
> you perhaps remember the details of the original problem?
>
> Thanks.
>

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