Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
Mon Mar 18 23:57:00 GMT 2002

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Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> It's a long time ago for either Ian or Eric to remember this one, but
> I wonder whether you have some archaelogical evidence for the purpose
> of the patch?
> 
> Mon Aug  1 12:04:40 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@sanguine.cygnus.com)
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> 	* elf64-sparc.c (ELF_MAXPAGESIZE): Define.
> 
> 	ELF linker patches from Eric Youngdale <ericy@cais.cais.com>.
> 	* elfcode.h (elf_link_create_dynamic_sections): Set type of
> 	_DYNAMIC to STT_OBJECT.
> 	(NAME(bfd_elf,record_link_assignment)): Always create hash table
> 	entry.  Set type to STT_OBJECT.

I'm afraid I don't remember why this patch was made.  It may have just
been out of a general idea that every symbol should have a type.  Or
it may been to fix some bug.

Ian

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