From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeremie Courreges-Anglas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: -znocombreloc? Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:58:34 +0100 Message-ID: <87lgvrthp1.fsf@ritchie.wxcvbn.org> References: <2f0ed5df-5818-3d68-f52d-f73660b689d3@cs.ucla.edu> <83lgvvlndb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481155274 17579 195.159.176.226 (8 Dec 2016 00:01:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 00:01:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.90 (berkeley-unix) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Paul Eggert , Andreas Schwab , dancol@dancol.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 08 01:01:05 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 1cEm92-0003R5-UK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2016 01:01:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43203 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEm96-0006MW-Tz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 19:01:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59697) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEm8T-0006Jn-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 19:00:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEm8S-0006HT-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 19:00:29 -0500 Original-Received: from chomsky.autogeree.net ([91.216.110.36]:56063) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEm8O-00067N-7V; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 19:00:24 -0500 Original-Received: from ritchie.wxcvbn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wxcvbn.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id uB7Nwfx3050853; Thu, 8 Dec 2016 00:58:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (from jca@localhost) by ritchie.wxcvbn.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id uB7NwY0o047244; Thu, 8 Dec 2016 00:58:34 +0100 (CET) Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , Andreas Schwab , dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <83lgvvlndb.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 04 Dec 2016 17:34:08 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 91.216.110.36 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:210119 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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, Paul, can you please point at the relevant information in the gcc documentation? >> 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? nocombreloc doesn't seem to be needed on OpenBSD/amd64, using gcc and ld from the base system (4.2.1 and 2.17, respectively). I've asked for reports on other archs (emacs-25.1.90 + a patch to disable the ld flag). > Andreas, you introduced the use of this switch back in Sep 2001; do > you perhaps remember the details of the original problem? > > Thanks. > -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE