[PATCH] ARC: Explicitly specify OUTPUT_FORMAT in the linker script

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Hi Vineet,

On Fri, 2018-06-01 at 09:12 -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 06/01/2018 03:49 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > It might be a good idea to explicitly specify BFD format
> > depending on -EB/-EL option passed to the linker and not rely on
> > default behavior as we have now.
> 
> What exactly is the problem we are trying to solve here ?
> Is this preventive or did you run into something - if latter can u explain it here
> please ?

Right, this is preventive patch.
As Claus mentioned that's good to have this explicit information for BFD but
otherwise there's no clear requirement or even recommendation on OUTPUT_FORMAT
usage so that might not be needed.

-Alexey


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