Re: Work around IRIX 6 ld bug creating executables

[Rainer Orth]

Akim Demaille writes:

>  >    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-02/msg00592.html

> It looks good, but isn't there another bug?  Where is this a.out
> coming from originally?

As described in the reference above, gas -v < /dev/null produces it.  But
the origin of a.out should be immaterial: if it exists for any reason, the
execution test will spuriously fail, so it should be removed first.

        Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University