On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > Yeah, agreed FWIW. This was necessary while the feature was relatively > > new, and while we still supported IRIX as, but I can't see any reasonable > > justification for using such an ancient binutils with modern GCC. > > > > Getting rid of -mno-explicit-relocs altogether might simplify things. > > FWIW I tend to agree too, although I think the current mess has to be > fixed first (and backported to the release branches) before going forward > with the removal.
And FAOD I think a stub check has to remain even after the removal and just cause `configure' to bail out if an unsupported obsolete version of GAS has been identified. Maciej
