From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Link error with linux-2.5 bk
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:01:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16398.48787.367528.610016@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040120144809.GT27591@localhost>
>>>>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:57:43 -0800, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> said:
>> Andrew sent me the attached. He seems to agree with your analysis & fix.
Tony> Why didn't this show up on other architecture builds? Doesn't
Tony> anyone else discard .exit.text? Or does everyone else have
Tony> the default for CONFIG_DUMMY set to 'n' or 'm' rather than
Tony> 'y'?
I'm wondering about that, too.
Tony> I'd also like to nominate:
Tony> local symbol 0: discarded in section `.exit.text' from drivers/built-in.o
Tony> for the "Least helpful error message" award(*). From previous
Tony> experience I know that this is caused by improper use of
Tony> __exit ... but it would really help a lot if the message had
Tony> an actual symbol name, rather than "local symbol 0".
I think the linker has even worse error messages. Perhaps you could
talk HJ into taking a look at it? (In his copious spare time...)
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-21 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-20 14:48 Link error with linux-2.5 bk Martin Hicks
2004-01-20 21:09 ` Darren Williams
2004-01-21 16:55 ` Luck, Tony
2004-01-21 17:20 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-21 17:42 ` David Mosberger
2004-01-21 17:57 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-01-21 17:57 ` Luck, Tony
2004-01-21 18:01 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2004-01-21 18:11 ` Andi Kleen
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