linux-kernel - Re: kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected

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Message-ID: <77140de3-84de-dc5a-c82d-60432145fec2@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 19:06:21 +0200
From:   Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected

Hi all!

On 16/07/2019 17:59, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
[...]
> No. It fails randomly, but also predictable. Enable X32 support on 64bit
> and it fails the VDSO build. That's been the case for years.

FWIW "GNU gold (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu 2.30) 1.15" segfaults for
userspace x32 binaries now and then (in unpredictable ways) too.

MfG,
	Bernd--
"I dislike type abstraction if it has no real reason. And saving
on typing is not a good reason - if your typing speed is the main
issue when you're coding, you're doing something seriously wrong."
    - Linus Torvalds

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