Re: [PATCH]: Remove CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64 entirely

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

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