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Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Non-bootable kernel problems 
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:39:22 -0600
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From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
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  In message <87hf9szo9j.fsf@linuxcare.com>you write:
  > Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
  > 
  > > How/why is ld -r changing the addends?  That seems wrong at first glance.
  > 
  > The relocations in question are specified as <.data+0xf00>, and thus,
  > as far as I can tell, it has to change the addends since there is no
  > symbol value within .data that it can update.
Either we need to avoid merging the section symbols to avoid twiddling
the addend, or we need to avoid reducing relocs to section symbols to
begin with.

jeff