Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:20:23 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> > Is it possible to configure GCC for 16-bit wide characters (to make it
> > compatible with Windows in conjunction with RSXNTDJ), and have
> > protoize be part of the binary distribution?
> 
> Both things are in.

Great!

> Also support of using weak symbols and .gnu.linkonce sections when
> specially enabled by one command line option (-mbnu210) as suggested
> by Mark Elbrecht about half a year ago. Note that one needs recent 
> binutils snapshot to use this feature. This feature is off by default
> unless somebody puts it into specs as default

This should probably be mentioned in the README.

> Maybe it's worth to make such binaries of some binutils snapshot
> available from directories v2gnu/alphas or v2gnu/beta

What exactly prevents us from putting out Binutils 2.9.1 with some of the 
latest enhancements on SimTel.NET?  Apart of the time needed to package
it, that is?  I think 2.8.1 is too old to be still used.

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