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SubjectRe: [RFC, PATCH, v3.9] default exported asm symbols to zero
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> With binutils-2.16 and before, a weak missing symbol was kept during the

2.26?

> final link, and a missing CRC for an export would lead to that CRC
> being treated as zero implicitly. With binutils-2.17, the crc

2.27?

> symbol gets dropped, and any module trying to use it will fail to
> load.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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