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Re: gold input section handling


From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:17:22 +0200

> > I'll work on submitting some kernel patches to cure the cases that are
> > currently wrong.  The one's I've fixed so far have gotten me to the
> > final link where some 64-bit sparc target bugs were triggered :-)
> 
> But then there is still the issue that old kernels couldn't build?
> 
> I would say that would be a show stopper for gold deployment on Linux as
> you earlier remarked.

Ian added the compatibility bits to this discussion is moot.

> Also even without this fixed the linker should give a clear error
> or better warning message for this, not an assertation failure.

Of course.


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