From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264649AbUGFWtA (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:49:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264652AbUGFWtA (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:49:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36233 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264649AbUGFWss (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:48:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:45:55 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Andrew Morton Cc: wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.7-mm6 Message-Id: <20040706154555.79673f14.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040706153417.237e454e.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20040705023120.34f7772b.akpm@osdl.org> <20040706125438.GS21066@holomorphy.com> <20040706153417.237e454e.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:34:17 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > > > Third, some naive check for undefined symbols failed to understand the > > relocation types indicating that a given operand refers to some hard > > register, which manifest as undefined symbols in ELF executables. A > > patch to refine its criteria, which I used to build with, follows. rmk > > and hpa have some other ideas on this undefined symbol issue I've not > > quite had the opportunity to get a clear statement of yet. > > I converted that to a non-fatal warning due to the same problem on sparc64. Andrew, Russell posted to us in private email an objdump based check that didn't trigger for the register declaration case.