From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-ppc@lauterbach.com>,
	<linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>, <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: Changes to PPC Linux required for GCC 3.1
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:50:38 +0100
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>
>I think the reason this wasn't applied is that Paul said something about
>thiws being horriyingly ugly.  Corey, can you post a patch that changes
>RELOC(x) into a function and nothing else? :)

I prefer this beeing resolved at compile time. The reason Paul didn't want
it at first is because he didn't want a workaround for a pre-release gcc
bug. Since this is becoming a "feature", it makes sense to get the
workaround. Paulus will confirm or not what I'm saying though...

Ben.


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