On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:10:18AM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote: > This may no longer be relevant given the rest of the thread, but for the > record: what you describe is indeed how things used to work before the > libtool upgrade. (Although as Rask points out, linking never actually > failed for "int main () { return 0; }" without a -T option for MIPS; > it just gave a warning that __start was undefined and that the entry > point was being set to some built-in value. I think both Dan and I > thought it should be an error instead, but that didn't fly...)
It didn't violently not-fly either; I think we persuaded everyone, but I haven't been back to submit the obvious patch at the end of that thread yet. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery