linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] exclude h8300 local symbols (Re: kallsyms exclude local symbols)

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Date:	Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:39:40 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exclude h8300 local symbols (Re: kallsyms exclude local
 symbols)

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Yoshinori Sato wrote:
> At Sun, 7 Sep 2008 23:56:27 -0700,
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > This patch broke kallsyms on powerpc.  Please see
> > http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-September/062549.html
> 
> Hmm...
> h8300 local symbol head of '.L'.
> But powerpc don't have '.L' pattern.
> I think add condition "str[1] == 'L'".

No, that won't work right on PowerPC if there's function called
something like LookUpTable: we want the symbol ".LookUpTable".

Hugh
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