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Re: PATCH: PR ld/14052: binutils 2.22.52.0.2 breaks 3.3.x kernel on i686
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, mjw at redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 14:25:42 +0930
- Subject: Re: PATCH: PR ld/14052: binutils 2.22.52.0.2 breaks 3.3.x kernel on i686
- References: <20120504170655.GA5058@intel.com>
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:06:55AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Fix for
>
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13621
>
> breaks Linux kernel:
>
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14052
>
> This patch reverts the fix for PR 13621 and keeps empty input sections
> with symbols. OK to install?
I've reverted the patch for 13621. We can consider a solution like
your keeping empty sections with symbols, separately. No doubt keeping
empty sections will impact the testsuite if nothing else.
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM