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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.