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Re: RFC: Use ELF strtab functions create .strtab section
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:39:46 +0100
- Subject: Re: RFC: Use ELF strtab functions create .strtab section
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This patch uses ELF strtab functions to create .strtab section. Symbol
>> strings with the same suffixes are merged. There is some small memory
>> overhead to use ELF strtab functions:
>
> This breaks module loading in the powerpc64 kernel. See dedotify in
> arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c.
But it can easily be fixed in the kernel.
Andreas.
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