On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 5:25 AM Nick Clifton <ni...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi Fangrui, > > > The opinion in my other message > > (https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2020-July/112283.html ) > > stands. allowexec will not be a suitable option name. > > Agreed - thinking on it some more, if we do implement this option > then a name like "allowall" or "allowany" might be better.
I think we don't need an option then. The number of use cases is small enough. > > For seabios and Linux 5.2 (this major release only), a linker warning > > should not hurt. > > In a future release of GNU ld, the warning can be upgraded to an error. > > This seems like a good compromise to me. I will add a patch to the 2.35 > branch to change the error to a warning, along with a note that supporting > this kind of linking is likely to be deprecated in the future. > > Cheers > Nick Sounds like a good plan. Thanks! _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list -- seabios@seabios.org To unsubscribe send an email to seabios-le...@seabios.org