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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 1995 15:36:05 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   ls_length in struct linker_set
Message-ID:  <9507261936.AA08840@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9507261906.AA22866@cs.weber.edu>
References:  <9507261340.AA08157@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <9507261906.AA22866@cs.weber.edu>

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<<On Wed, 26 Jul 95 13:06:14 MDT, terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) said:

> While on that topic, didn't anyone notice that the PCI code is the
> only code that actually uses the linker set length field?  Everything
> else looks for the NULL record at the end of the set.  Does anyone
> want to clean up the PCI code to do the same, and get rid of the
> length field altogether?

The layout of the structure is defined by GNU ld, so I would not want
to touch it since other GNUware may depend on it for correct
operation.  See gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.h, as I recall, near where it
defines N_SETT etc.

-GAWollman

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