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Re: PATCH: Don't allow ia64 unwind section to point to section in different files


On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:20:44AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 18 May 2005 08:15:23 -0700, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> said:
> 
>   >> gas/ 2005-05-18 Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
> 
>   >> * config/tc-ia64.c (dot_endp): Don't use global symbol for unwind
>   >> relocations in unwind section.
> 
>   HJ> I like this one. It works on Linux kernel.
> 
> Cool.
> 
> BTW: I still don't quite understand what's makes this part unique to
> the Linux kernel.  Wouldn't this problem potentially occur whenever
> linking objects which define a symbol both in weak and strong form?

It is not unique to kernel. We just didn't notice it before.


H.J.


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