linux-kernel - Re: powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

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Message-Id: <20160209121607.9FFE71401CD@ozlabs.org>
Date:	Tue,  9 Feb 2016 23:16:07 +1100 (AEDT)
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

On Fri, 2016-05-02 at 18:50:03 UTC, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Since binutils 2.26 BFD is doing suffix merging on STRTAB sections.  But
> dedotify modifies the symbol names in place, which can also modify
> unrelated symbols with a name that matches a suffix of a dotted name.  To
> remove the leading dot of a symbol name we can just increment the pointer
> into the STRTAB section instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f15838e9cac8f78f0cc506529b

cheers