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Re: ARM mapping symbols and --strip-unneeded
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: "Richard Earnshaw (lists)" <Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com>, Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Michael Weiser <michael at weiser dot dinsnail dot net>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:23:53 +0100
- Subject: Re: ARM mapping symbols and --strip-unneeded
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Hi Guys,
>> We should check aarch64 target as it might have the same issue too as
>> it uses $d and $t too.
> Although AArch64 ELF defines some mapping symbols, I don't think they
> are currently needed beyond being helpers for disassembly (code vs data).
I think that they might be needed for the Cortex-A53 erratum 835769...
Anyway I have now checked in a patch that duplicates the ARM mapping symbol
preservation code for the AAcrh64, although restricted to AArch64 mapping
symbols, obviously.
Cheers
Nick