ld warning, allocated section not in segment

[Vivek Goyal]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 12:28:32PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Vivek,
> 
> >ld: .tmp_vmlinux1: warning: allocated section `.smp_altinstr_replacement' 
> >not in segment
> 
> 
> >I am using ld version GNU ld version 2.15.92.0.2 20040927
> >This is also reproducible by linker version 2.16.1
> 
> I think that you may need a newer version of the linker (2.17). 
> Possibly you may even need the current development version of the linker 
> from the mainline of the binutils sources.
> 

Hi Nick,

Does that mean that this is an undesired behaviour, hence a bug and has
been fixed in latest binutils sources? First of all I don't even understand
what does it mean?

Thanks
Vivek