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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] Use --build-id ld option
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:48:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4695B28E.2020603@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070711190533.B68534D0555@magilla.localdomain>

Roland McGrath wrote:
> This change passes the --build-id when linking the kernel and when
> linking modules, if ld supports it.  This is a new GNU ld option that
> synthesizes an ELF note section inside the read-only data.  The note in
> this section contains unique identifying bits called the "build ID",
> which are generated so as to be different for any two linked ELF files
> that aren't identical.

Does this mean that performing the same link twice *will* produce an 
identical result?

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-12  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-11 19:05 [PATCH 7/7] Use --build-id ld option Roland McGrath
2007-07-12  4:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-07-12  6:24   ` Roland McGrath
2007-07-14  1:23     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-14  1:26       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-14  1:36         ` Adrian Bunk

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