linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] modpost: Update 64k section support for binutils 2.18.50

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Message-ID: <877hagl0na.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:02:41 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Anders Kaseorg <andersk@...lice.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modpost: Update 64k section support for binutils 2.18.50

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:30:13 -0400 (EDT), Anders Kaseorg <andersk@...lice.com> wrote:
> Binutils 2.18.50 made a backwards-incompatible change in the way it
> writes ELF objects with over 65280 sections, to improve conformance
> with the ELF specification and interoperability with other ELF tools.
> Specifically, it no longer adds 256 to section indices SHN_LORESERVE
> and higher to skip over the reserved range SHN_LORESERVE through
> SHN_HIRESERVE; those values are only considered special in the
> st_shndx field, and not in other places where section indices are
> stored.  See:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5900
> http://groups.google.com/group/generic-abi/browse_thread/thread/e8bb63714b072e67/6c63738f12cc8a17

Applied.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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