Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:52:55 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.7-mm6 |
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William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote: >>> Third, some naive check for undefined symbols failed to understand the >>> relocation types indicating that a given operand refers to some hard >>> register, which manifest as undefined symbols in ELF executables. A >>> patch to refine its criteria, which I used to build with, follows. rmk >>> and hpa have some other ideas on this undefined symbol issue I've not >>> quite had the opportunity to get a clear statement of yet.
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:34:17 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > I converted that to a non-fatal warning due to the same problem on sparc64.
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:45:55PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > Andrew, Russell posted to us in private email an objdump based > check that didn't trigger for the register declaration case.
He seems not to have cc:'d me. Apparently *UND* isn't always the fourth field so he did objdump --syms vmlinux | grep '^[^R][^E][^G].*\*UND\*' instead of the awk expression I brewed up.
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