[patch] Comments for linker-option section, was Re: powerpc*le-linux support

[Brooks Moses]

Gary, Peter -

First, thank you for helping get this committed!

On 08/22/2013 07:34 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2013, at 8:58 PM, Peter Rosin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > How can it be correct to say "-m elf32lppclinux" (32-bit) when $host is
> > explicitly 64-bit? That seems like utter garbage to me. What am I
> > missing this time?
>
> I don't get it either, and I can't test it.  I trust the ppcle community
> will commence shouting if the patches have done something horrible. However,
> if there is any nonsense here, it predates my recent patch butchering,
> because even the pre-patched code seems to mix 32bit and 64bit concepts
> liberally.
>
> If someone would like to apply (or send me) a patch that adds a comment
> explaining why this code needs to look so odd, that would be very helpful!

Based on Alan's explanation and what I could tell from looking at the 
code, I've tried to expand the comments to explain what's going on, as 
per the attached patch.  Does this look like a useful improvement to the 
situation?

Thanks,
- Brooks

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