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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 07:17:28 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: allow 2.6 to build on old old setups
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On 28 Jul 2003 12:30:59 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Llu, 2003-07-28 at 02:52, David S. Miller wrote:
> > >  		    info->hdr->e_machine == EM_SPARCV9) {
> > >  			/* Ignore register directives. */
> > >  			if (ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) == STT_REGISTER)
> > >  				break;
> > >  		}
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > This change is wrong.
> > 
> > If you're going to do this, it's much better to define it to the
> > correct value in this case (which is decimal '13').
> 
> Its sparc specific stuff so presumably all sparc stuff had the register?
> I can change and resubmit though - no problem

The situation is that, on every platform, one gets the define in
/usr/include/elf.h, it's just that older glibc's lack the define.