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To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] _end symbol missing from Symbol.map
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On 08/20/2009 03:59 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> So, judging from the commit log, simply reverting it seems to have
> some drawback...?
> 

Yes.  I'm starting to think we should have a list of "known relative
symbols" in relocs.c just as we have a list of "known absolute symbols"
already.

	-hpa