Date:	Sun, 1 Jul 2001 11:11:58 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Matthew Conte <matt AT conte DOT com>
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Matthew Conte wrote:

> > Anyway, did you check how frequently do the Linux people modify the
> > script?  For all I know, they could be doing that every week or so ;-)
> 
> linker scripts change very infrequently.

On GNU/Linux or in general?

> in my experience, you build it
> once, test it rigorously (it's pretty obvious when you've fouled something
> up), and you're done with it.

At least with DJGPP, the experience of the past two years or so
suggests otherwise.  We had quite a few changes to the linker script,
to track the additional functionality added to Binutils and GCC.

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