New x86 linker testsuite failure

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Jun 26 13:43:00 GMT 2018


Hi Alan,

>> Yeah, and the test really does want to error out as the vma/lma given
>> for .foo isn't possible within the text segment.  The patch
>> responsible for the regression is "Use offsets instead of addresses in
>> ELF_SECTION_IN_SEGMENT for non SHT_NOBITS".  I OK'd that one thinking
>> it was reasonable, but this fail says otherwise.
> 
> I think the patch should be reverted for the binutils-2.31 release.

Fair enough - could I ask that you do that please ?  That I can be sure
that the job is done correctly... :-)

Cheers
  Nick




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