A patch for http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/2000-04/msg00373.html

[H . J . Lu]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 11:45:02PM +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Franz Sirl wrote:
> 
> > Am Sun, 16 Apr 2000 schrieb H . J . Lu:
> > >The old gld${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan assumes it only processes
> > >SEC_ALLOC sections. When we allow ~SEC_ALLOC sections, we have to
> > >check it. This patch seems to fix
> > >
> > > http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/2000-04/msg00373.html
> 
> I thought I had run the testsuite, but obviously not.  I'll try not to be
> so lax again..
> 
> > this patch solves the vmlinux relocation errors on PPC I got, but if I compile
> > the kernel with -gdwarf-2, it seems the debug sections no longer get merged now:
> 
> The following patch hopefully Does The Right Thing.  I've incorporated
> H.J.'s fix along with a few of my own, and I'll commit it after hearing
> back from you.  (This one does pass "make check" on x86!)
> 

It seems to work for me. But I did get

eelf_i386.c: In function `gldelf_i386_place_orphan':
eelf_i386.c:847: warning: `old' might be used uninitialized in this function
eelf_i386.c:850: warning: `ps' might be used uninitialized in this function

I checked they out. They seem harmless.

Thanks.


H.J.