From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:30:18 +0000 Subject: local symbol 0: discarded in section `.exit.text' from Message-Id: <20040408003018.42418a33.akpm@osdl.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org For some reason the ia64 toolchain like to find these... linux-tiger:/usr/src/25> reference_discarded.pl Finding objects, 1137 objects, ignoring 0 module(s) Finding conglomerates, ignoring 119 conglomerate(s) Scanning objects Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2100.o .debug_info refers to 0000000000011fef DIR64LSB .exit.text Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2100.o .debug_info refers to 0000000000012310 DIR64LSB .exitcall.exit Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2100.o .debug_line refers to 000000000000069d DIR64LSB .exit.text Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2100.o .debug_aranges refers to 0000000000000030 DIR64LSB .exit.text Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2200.o .debug_info refers to 0000000000011fef DIR64LSB .exit.text Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2200.o .debug_info refers to 0000000000012310 DIR64LSB .exitcall.exit Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2200.o .debug_line refers to 000000000000069d DIR64LSB .exit.text Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2200.o .debug_aranges refers to 0000000000000030 DIR64LSB .exit.text Can anyone suggest what has actually caused this to happen? I have CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n. Using gcc (GCC) 3.5.0 20040206 (experimental) Also, I am heartily sick of this gunk from the assembler: {standard input}:20882: Warning: This is the location of the conflicting usage {standard input}:20917: Warning: Use of 'ld4' may violate RAW dependency 'DBR#' (data) {standard input}:20917: Warning: Only the first path encountering the conflict is reported {standard input}:20882: Warning: This is the location of the conflicting usage {standard input}:20917: Warning: Use of 'ld4' may violate RAW dependency 'DBR#' (data) Has that been fixed yet? If so, which is a good version of binutils to start using? Thanks.