Re: Problems building emacs-21.2 on IRIX with gcc-3.4.4

[Albert Chin <emacs-devel@mlists.thewrittenword.com>]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:45:46AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Thanks for the tip. We had one of the GCC developers look at the
>     problem (Eric Botcazou), and he found out that gcc-3.4.x is creating
>     some additional R/W ELF sections that the IRIX linker is not combining
>     (gcc-3.3.x created one R/W and one R/O ELF section). He plans to look
>     into this further. Hopefully we'll have a solution soon.
> 
> It may need upgrading of unexelf.c in Emacs to handle more different
> sections.

>From Eric, the difference in .data.* sections between gcc-3.3 and
gcc-3.4:
  (1) for 3.3: .data .data.rel.ro
  (2) for 3.4: .data .data.rel .data.rel.local

Any way to get unexelf.c to merge all the .data* sections?

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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)