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Re: -znocombreloc?
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Richard Copley |
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Re: -znocombreloc? |
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Sun, 4 Dec 2016 10:36:08 +0000 |
On 4 December 2016 at 05:36, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Daniel Colascione wrote:
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>> Does anyone remember _why_ temacs segfaults on startup unless we give ld
>> this
>> option?
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> It doesn't segfault for me, even when I build with -zcombreloc. I think
> -znocombreloc worked around bugs in now-obsolete versions of the GNU linker.
> See, for example:
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> 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
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> Looking at recent GCC documentation it appears that this old hack should not
> matter now, 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.
Not sure where GCC and x86-64 come into it if this was for the Solaris native
linker. (Is Solaris still a thing?)