> The situation for userland is different and much more complex. GNU libc and
> other packages do heavily rely on GNU ld's features. Add that GNU ld is
> evolving. That makes using anything but GNU ld a no go for userspace.
I was talking to Ralf earlier and I mentioned that I thought SGI was going to
use the MIPS Pro compiler to compile the Linux that will run on the IA-64 SN1
machines. I really don't know what's happening with the MIPS Pro compiler
nowadays, I've only heard rumours from here and there. If the MIPS Pro
compiler is going to be used to compile Linux I assume that the GNU specific
features required to compile the GNU libc, such as symbol versioning, will be
added, and we can use the features for MIPS as well as IA-64. Does anyone
know whether the MIPS Pro compiler for IA-64 will be open sourced or not?
Ulf
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