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Re: Release 2.26 - Next week ?
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 11:34:12 +1030
- Subject: Re: Release 2.26 - Next week ?
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:21:08AM +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote:
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> > On 08 Jan 2016, at 18:26, Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > - PR 19421, but currently only a bug report
Now analysed. The ppc64le kernel problem is due to needing to keep
undefined symbols. I'd say it is also a kernel bug that the symbol in
question isn't defined, but that's really another issue. The point is
that we have a GNU ld use case where removing undefined symbols breaks
an existing program.
> Letâs exclude it.
I'm of two minds about this. PR3417 wants undefined symbols to be
removed: "When the reference to __tls_get_addr is removed, it leaves
undefined symbol in symtab. It is confusing." H.J. what exactly was
confusing? When I made the PR3417 patch, I thought PR3417 was mostly
about cosmetics and figured that removing undefined symbols was
reasonably safe. If it is true that PR3417 was only cosmetic, I think
my patch ought to be reverted.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM