ld segfault while compiling Linux/alpha 2.6 with CVS trunk

[Rusty Russell]

In message <20030918180018.GA25026@redhat.com> you write:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:19:46PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Is the bug likely to be:
> >   - the creation of the .got section in the object?
> 
> This one is likely to have caused ...
> 
> >   - the linker crash?
> 
> ... this one.
> 
> >   - both?
> 
> Of course the linker crash is a bug.
> 
> The .got section creation thing is something that the module creation
> code on alpha-linux does (severe hackery due to not using ld to link).
> I was not aware that it was legal to try to link module code directly
> into the main kernel, however...

It's not.  Build bug maybe?  Something changed from modular to
non-modular and didn't get rebuilt?

Rusty.
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