gold input section handling

Andi Kleen andi@firstfloor.org
Mon Apr 14 12:54:00 GMT 2008


David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:

> When trying to build a sparc64 Linux kernel with my sparc gold target
> I get an assertion failure in Output_data_dynamic::set_info_section().

That's the same I'm seeing on x86-64 also with the linux kernel.

> The reason is that the input objects to the link are using different
> section flags for a particular section.
>
> The section '.devinit.data' in one object uses just SHF_ALLOC, and in
> another it used (SHF_ALLOC | SHF_WRITE).

Yes, hit it with that section too.

Perhaps it should be fixed in the kernel, but fixing gold too would
make sense I guess.

-Andi



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