https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100937
--- Comment #9 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to frankhb1989 from comment #7) > GCC and the GNU toolchain are not ELF-specific. Nor are they responsible to > the authority of the specification. That seems like nonsense to me. The toolchain might not be ELF-specific, but on targets that *do* use ELF, of course the ELF specification is relevant, and deviating from it should not be done lightly. > The "ELF assumptions" have no natural > position to be the default at the very first glance from the users' view. More nonsense. Just because portability between ELF and PE/COFF is difficult and requires care, doesn't mean we should also make it difficult to guarantee portability across different linux distros that are all using ELF. That's just silly. You don't make anything better by making everything equally bad.
