------- Additional Comments From ian at airs dot com 2005-11-06 04:58 ------- Am I sure about the a.out behaviour? Yes, I am. When I refer to SunOS I do mean SunOS 4, pre Solaris, which used the a.out object file format.
The strange behaviour of common symbols increasing size even without linking in the object file was used to make stdin/stdout/stderr work in the traditional a.out libc. A linker which failed to implement it correctly could not link a "hello, world" program. AT&T went to COFF in SVR3, and they changed the behaviour of common symbols at that time. I've used SVR2, but I don't have a clear recollection of how the linker worked. I think that on Solaris we have to do what the native linker does. Likewise on UnixWare. So if they have different behaviour, we have to have different defaults. It would of course be reasonable to provide a command line option to control this. -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1811 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
