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Message-ID: <4AF86211.3070103@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:40:17 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, mingo@...hat.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hare@...e.de,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Add back _end symbol that is missing from
Symbol.map
On 11/08/2009 04:38 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> I think ld discards zero size sections. No need to keep them around
> if they are empty.
>
> Following patch should fix it up in a better way.
> I reused most of Hannes changelog.
Part of me wonders if this isn't better handled by just making relocs.c
deal with _end as a special case (and of course making it possible to
add others.)
Here is a distinctively non-minimal patch -- I used a modified version
of relocs.c for the Syslinux project, and this is basically a backport
of the changes I did for that. It uses a regex to match either
known-absolute or known-relative symbols; the remaining changes are
mostly just dealing with particularly stupid code like using printf() to
do the work of fwrite(), and using select() where appropriate.
Sam, Ingo: I'd appreciate your opinions before checking anything in on this.
-hpa
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