From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: binutils woes
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:47:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040701174731.GD15960@smtp.west.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040701175231.B8389@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 05:52:31PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> On ARM, we appear to have somewhat of a problem with binutils. At
> least the following binutils suffer from a problem whereby it is
> possible to create programs which contain undefined symbols:
[snip]
> I think the only way we can ensure kernel correctness is to add a
> subsequent stage to kbuild such that whenever we generate a final
> program, we grep the 'nm' output for undefined symbols.
>
> Comments?
Is there a version of binutils that really does get things right? If
so, can't you Just Say No to older versions and force people to upgrade
(with a simple testcase done upfront) ?
--
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-01 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-01 16:52 binutils woes Russell King
2004-07-01 17:47 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2004-07-01 18:07 ` Russell King
2004-07-01 19:44 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-07-01 19:52 ` Russell King
2004-07-01 22:12 ` Russell King
2004-07-01 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-01 22:22 ` Russell King
2004-07-02 10:56 ` Michael Buesch
2004-07-11 11:32 ` Russell King
2004-07-11 13:56 ` Russell King
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