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On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 13:55 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
> 
> LINKER_HASH_STYLE is not set to either sysv or gnu
> depending upon architecture e.g. mips does not support
> gnu hash style among the supported architectures so
> we make sure its set to 'sysv' form mips
> 
> Linker flags are munged to adhere to renamed variable
> 
> Third option is to set it to 'both' we do
> not do that by default but user can still set it

It wasn't totally obvious to me why this patch is a good thing.  Can you
explain why this change is desirable? 

Also, I found the first paragraph of the description above quite hard to
understand.  Do you think you could try to reword it to be a bit
clearer?

p.