[patch] Drop support for creating $subs

[Rafael Espíndola via llvm-commits]

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On 31 May 2016 at 10:03, Iain Sandoe <iain at codesourcery.com> wrote:
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>> On 27 May 2016, at 20:30, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> They are created by the linker since OS X 10.5.
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>> Cheers,
>> Rafael
>> <0001-Update-tests-to-use-at-least-darwin9.patch><0002-Drop-support-for-creating-stubs.patch>
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> There’s no technical objection from me (and I for one find the asm more readable without the stubs)
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> However, this does represent a change in policy (no longer supporting generation of objects in 10.4 format);
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> It might well be moot in that 10.4 native tools probably cannot consume current binaries anyway (because of the version load commands).  That’s definitely true of the “cctools” related tools (e.g. ar), right now I don’t have a 10.4 system up to check whether the ld from xcode 2.5 can link .o files with version load commands.
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