From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: -znocombreloc? Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2016 17:34:08 +0200 Message-ID: <83lgvvlndb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2f0ed5df-5818-3d68-f52d-f73660b689d3@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480865646 14328 195.159.176.226 (4 Dec 2016 15:34:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 15:34:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert , Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 04 16:34:02 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cDYnf-0002lu-6T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:33:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34813 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDYni-0006U8-VZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 10:34:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47575) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDYnd-0006Ts-58 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 10:33:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDYna-0005LK-2J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 10:33:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59017) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDYnZ-0005LG-VZ; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 10:33:54 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1660 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cDYnZ-00020p-2u; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 10:33:53 -0500 In-reply-to: <2f0ed5df-5818-3d68-f52d-f73660b689d3@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 3 Dec 2016 21:36:49 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210023 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > 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, 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? Andreas, you introduced the use of this switch back in Sep 2001; do you perhaps remember the details of the original problem? Thanks.