Fwd: [PATCH] arm: ensure symbol is a thumb symbol in new binutils

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Fri Jun 1 07:12:00 GMT 2018


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




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