2000-02-27 Thomas de Lellis <tdel@windriver.com>

	* config/obj-elf.c (elf_frob_symbol): Remove code which when
	TC_PPC was defined forced the type of a symbol with no other type
	to be BSF_OBJECT.

diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index bc4e5e9..7a30f28 100644 (file)
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2000-02-27  Thomas de Lellis  <tdel@windriver.com>
+
+       * config/obj-elf.c (elf_frob_symbol): Remove code which when
+       TC_PPC was defined forced the type of a symbol with no other type
+       to be BSF_OBJECT.
+
 2000-02-27  Hans-Peter Nilsson  <hp@axis.com>
 
        * doc/internals.texi (CPU backend): Mention that

diff --git a/gas/config/obj-elf.c b/gas/config/obj-elf.c
index f9e4406..21fd0fa 100644 (file)
--- a/gas/config/obj-elf.c
+++ b/gas/config/obj-elf.c
@@ -1693,9 +1693,11 @@ elf_frob_symbol (symp, puntp)
     symbol_get_bfdsym (symp)->flags |= BSF_OBJECT;
 #endif
 
-#ifdef TC_PPC
-  /* Frob the PowerPC, so that the symbol always has object type
-     if it is not some other type.  VxWorks needs this.  */
+#if 0 /* TC_PPC */
+  /* If TC_PPC is defined, we used to force the type of a symbol to be
+     BSF_OBJECT if it was otherwise unset.  This was required by some
+     version of VxWorks.  Thomas de Lellis <tdel@windriver.com> says
+     that this is no longer needed, so it is now commented out.  */
   if ((symbol_get_bfdsym (symp)->flags
        & (BSF_FUNCTION | BSF_FILE | BSF_SECTION_SYM)) == 0
       && S_IS_DEFINED (symp))