Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:17:54 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scripts: Make sortextable handle relocations. |
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On 04/20/2012 04:14 PM, David Daney wrote: >> >> I think Linus is right and the right thing to do is to switch to using >> relative entries in the exception table; I am currently testing a >> patchset to do exactly that (on x86). It also has the benefit of making >> the table half the size on x86-64. Then we can just zero out the >> .rel[a]__ex_table section and be done with it. > > That's fine. > > In any event we want to do build time sorting, this patch improves the > original sortextable, so may be worthwhile as purely a cleanup. I > wanted to fix the relocation breakage, even if the eventual solution > needs to be somewhat different. >
Yes... let me finish the patchset and then you can look at what is needed.
-hpa
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