From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] symbols: prefix static symbols with their source file names Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 13:47:07 +0000 Message-ID: <1446472027.3088.41.camel@citrix.com> References: <562E12E802000078000AE785@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <562E217102000078000AE89F@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtFS5-0006tW-DG for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:47:13 +0000 In-Reply-To: <562E217102000078000AE89F@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich , xen-devel Cc: Andrew Cooper , Tim Deegan , Keir Fraser , Ian Jackson , Stefano Stabellini List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 05:49 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > This requires adjustments to the tool generating the symbol table and > its as well as nm's invocation. > > Note: Not warning about duplicate symbols in the EFI case for now, as > a binutils bug causes misnamed file name entries to appear in EFI > binaries' symbol tables when the file name is longer than 18 chars. > (Not doing so also avoids other duplicates getting printed twice.) > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich > --- > v2: Also special case file names with directory part (along with > object ones). Mirror xen-syms linking changes to ARM, but for now > without generating warnings. Thanks for taking care of ARM. I assume "without generating warnings" differs from the x86 behaviour? Is there some followup which us ARM folks ought to be looking into making? Ian.