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Re: ld segfault while compiling Linux/alpha 2.6 with CVS trunk
- From: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp dot com dot au>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com,Kai Germaschewski <kai at tp1 dot ruhr-uni-bochum dot de>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:27:36 +1000
- Subject: Re: ld segfault while compiling Linux/alpha 2.6 with CVS trunk
In message <20030918180018.GA25026@redhat.com> you write:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:19:46PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Is the bug likely to be:
> > - the creation of the .got section in the object?
>
> This one is likely to have caused ...
>
> > - the linker crash?
>
> ... this one.
>
> > - both?
>
> Of course the linker crash is a bug.
>
> The .got section creation thing is something that the module creation
> code on alpha-linux does (severe hackery due to not using ld to link).
> I was not aware that it was legal to try to link module code directly
> into the main kernel, however...
It's not. Build bug maybe? Something changed from modular to
non-modular and didn't get rebuilt?
Rusty.
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