Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:59:15 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC, PATCH, v3.9] default exported asm symbols to zero |
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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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