On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > AFAICS this loses -mno-explicit-relocs completely, but it is needed for > > > all non-ckseg0 CONFIG_64BIT builds. > > > > Why? I reckon GCC should support them just fine these days. > > Please remember that we officially only require GCC 3.2 or newer. 3.2 > turned out to be too broken to be supported for 64-bit builds but as long > as there is no significant problem I'd like to keep support for these > compiler antiques alive. Hmm, from the back of my head I think it should not be a problem -- IIRC the versions of GCC that did not support explicit relocs for 64-bit ELF would force "-mno-explicit-relocs" internally even if asked otherwise. They did not support "-msym32" either, which went in later, and then non-PIC support for 64-bit explicit relocs went in earlier than for PIC -- quite unsurprisingly, as %higher() and %highest() are not necessarily rocket science unlike %disp() and friends. If anybody cares I could probably make the excavations needed to verify the above. Maciej
