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From: James E Wilson <wilson@specifix.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix gnu-efi-3.0b-041222 for ia32
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:07:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142636870.24881.58.camel@aretha.corp.specifix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060317202301.GA20807@lucon.org>

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 13:52, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I believe his point is that .text* matches .textual and .texterific and
> many other sections which shouldn't be matched.  So you need to match
> .text and .text.*, not just .text*

Exactly.

The best example I can give is that I've fixed broken linker scripts in
libgloss that tried to match linkonce small data sections using
.gnu.linkonce.s*, without realizing that linkonce small bss sections are
.gnu.linkonce.sb.*.  This caused some C++ programs to fail in strange
and difficult to debug ways.  Those dots are important.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-17 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-17 20:23 PATCH: Fix gnu-efi-3.0b-041222 for ia32 H. J. Lu
2006-03-17 20:45 ` James E Wilson
2006-03-17 20:53 ` James E Wilson
2006-03-17 21:46 ` H. J. Lu
2006-03-17 21:52 ` H. J. Lu
2006-03-17 21:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-17 23:07 ` James E Wilson [this message]
2006-03-17 23:15 ` James E Wilson
2006-03-17 23:16 ` Stephane Eranian
2006-03-17 23:31 ` H. J. Lu
2006-03-17 23:54 ` James E Wilson

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