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Re: [Gold] problem building linux kernel
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus at trippelsdorf dot de>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:31:03 -0800
- Subject: Re: [Gold] problem building linux kernel
- References: <ibtajq$6cj$1@dough.gmane.org>
Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> writes:
> Would it be hard to fix this issue in gold or is this a kernel side
> problem?
Somebody will have to debug what is happening in order to find out.
These problems are generally linker script issues, in which gold
interprets a linker script differently than GNU ld. I normally consider
these to be bugs in gold, unless the GNU ld behaviour is just
outrageously incorrect.
Ian