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Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:50:49 -0600
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Cc:	John David Anglin <dave@...uly1.hia.nrc.ca>, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dave.anglin@....ca, roland@...hat.com
Subject: Re: kernel segv with 2.6.31-rc6 ?

On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 23:45 +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> On 08/20/2009 08:55 PM, John David Anglin wrote:
> >> The reason seems to be, that something in the newer gcc compilers changed to generate multiple sections all named ".text" for the PCREL17 relocations.
> >> Older compilers named those sections ".text.1", ".text.2", ".text.3" and so forth.
> >
> > GCC has never generated ".text.1", etc, on parisc linux as far as I know.
> 
> Hmm, I don't like to disagree with an gcc-expert like you,but
> I did pasted an objdump in my last mail, which shows that gcc did
> generated .text.1, .text.2 and so on:
> 
> Sections:
> Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
>    0 .text         00000000  00000000  00000000  00000034  2**0
>                    CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
> ...
>    4 .text.1       00000000  00000000  00000000  000000b0  2**0
>                    CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE

Since this is a relinked object, might it be possible that ld rather
than gcc is the culprit?

James


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