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Re: Fwd: [PATCH] arm: ensure symbol is a thumb symbol in new binutils
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: Romain Naour <romain dot naour at gmail dot com>, Christophe PRIOUZEAU <christophe dot priouzeau at st dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, buildroot <buildroot at buildroot dot org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 08:11:57 +0100
- Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] arm: ensure symbol is a thumb symbol in new binutils
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Hi Romain,
>> I think that part of the problem is that the kernel people are
>> asking for the (adr affecting part of the) patch to be reverted,
>> but they have not suggested a way to address the issue raised in
>> the PR. (From comment #6 onwards).
>
> Yes, but it's a very difficult topic.
> Did you have some feedback from ARM ?
Sadly no. :-( It would have been great to have a response from them
clarifying the behaviour of the ADR pseudo-instruction, but I never
managed to get a response.
> Christophe, it would be great if you can test this patch with your toolchain
> based on Binutils 2.29.
Or 2.30 ... :-)
Cheers
Nick