ld STRINGIFY

Delete support for old compilers that don't support string
concatentation.

	* Makefile.am (stringify.sed): Delete rule.
	(GEN_DEPENDS, DISTCLEANFILES): Adjust.
	* configure.ac (STRINGIFY): Delete.
	* emultempl/beos.em: Use stringify.sed from srcdir.
	* emultempl/elf.em: Likewise.
	* emultempl/generic.em: Likewise.
	* emultempl/msp430.em: Likewise.
	* emultempl/pdp11.em: Likewise.
	* emultempl/pe.em: Likewise.
	* emultempl/pep.em: Likewise.
	* emultempl/stringify.sed: Renamed from..
	* emultempl/astring.sed: ..this.
	* emultempl/ostring.sed: Delete.
	* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
	* configure: Regenerate.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 42 deletions

diff --git a/ld/configure b/ld/configure
index 960d54f..d2cdf25 100755
--- a/ld/configure
+++ b/ld/configure
@@ -646,7 +646,6 @@ EMUL
 elf_plt_unwind_list_options
 elf_shlib_list_options
 elf_list_options
-STRINGIFY
 ZSTD_LIBS
 ZSTD_CFLAGS
 zlibinc
@@ -11656,7 +11655,7 @@ else
   lt_dlunknown=0; lt_dlno_uscore=1; lt_dlneed_uscore=2
   lt_status=$lt_dlunknown
   cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<_LT_EOF
-#line 11659 "configure"
+#line 11658 "configure"
 #include "confdefs.h"
 
 #if HAVE_DLFCN_H
@@ -11762,7 +11761,7 @@ else
   lt_dlunknown=0; lt_dlno_uscore=1; lt_dlneed_uscore=2
   lt_status=$lt_dlunknown
   cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<_LT_EOF
-#line 11765 "configure"
+#line 11764 "configure"
 #include "confdefs.h"
 
 #if HAVE_DLFCN_H
@@ -17271,45 +17270,6 @@ fi
 fi
 
 
-# When converting linker scripts into strings for use in emulation
-# files, use astring.sed if the compiler supports ANSI string
-# concatenation, or ostring.sed otherwise.  This is to support the
-# broken Microsoft MSVC compiler, which limits the length of string
-# constants, while still supporting pre-ANSI compilers which do not
-# support string concatenation.
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether ANSI C string concatenation works" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking whether ANSI C string concatenation works... " >&6; }
-if ${ld_cv_string_concatenation+:} false; then :
-  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
-else
-  cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-
-int
-main ()
-{
-char *a = "a" "a";
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-if ac_fn_c_try_compile "$LINENO"; then :
-  ld_cv_string_concatenation=yes
-else
-  ld_cv_string_concatenation=no
-fi
-rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
-fi
-
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ld_cv_string_concatenation" >&5
-$as_echo "$ld_cv_string_concatenation" >&6; }
-if test "$ld_cv_string_concatenation" = "yes"; then
-  STRINGIFY=astring.sed
-else
-  STRINGIFY=ostring.sed
-fi
-
-
 # target-specific stuff:
 
 all_targets=