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Re: [Patch] Don't relocate compressed sections
- From: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:02:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Patch] Don't relocate compressed sections
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 01:36:26PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> As mentioned before, if we merge and finish up the relocate branch
> then the problem goes away.
But we currently don't have an estimate for when this will happen.
Until we do finish that I like to not apply relocations to compressed
sections, since we know that just doesn't work (and the corruption might
not even be detected if we do). That is really all the patch does.
Cheers,
Mark