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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:26:07 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] ia64: increase .data.patch offset
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:07:45 +1100 Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> wrote:

> >>>>> "akpm" = akpm  <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> akpm> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> I get this:
> 
> akpm> /opt/crosstool/gcc-3.4.5-glibc-2.3.6/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/gcc/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
> akpm> section .data.patch [a000000000000500 -> a000000000000507]
> akpm> overlaps section .dynamic [a0000000000003c8 -> a000000000000507]
> 
> If you switch to gcc 4.1 the patch section shrinks again and this patch
> isn't necessary.

It took me two solid days work to generate my current cross-compile suite. 
Weep.

I spose I can keep this patch locally if that's the direction which i64
wants to take.  But in that case ia64 should #error out early if __GNUC__
is wrong.