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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
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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.