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Re: PATCH: The current linker failed to generate working Linux kernel
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 07:45:53AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> I checked in 2 testcases.
You have no right to commit testcases that currently fail.
> One of them fails due to the changed linker behavior.
Of course it fails! You've written contrived testcases that depend on
the old behaviour. I deliberately changed the default linker behaviour,
believing that it was unlikely to affect any real-world scripts. I
still believe it is a reasonable change, even though it caused a failure
with a linux kernel script of dubious validity that happened to work
previously. Any such failure is easily rectified by adding AT(.) to
a section that needs lma == vma.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre