From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:14:38 +0000 Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] [Patch] trivial fix in linker script Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:05:35 -0800, "Siddha, Suresh B" said: Suresh> hi David, I agree. Attached a bigger patch now :) Well, it's not pretty so I deferred working on it to the last, and then I got distracted and forgot to do something about it. Where exactly does the problem come from? Is it that the Intel linker will complain when it finds the same symbol with different types? This kind of overzealous checking is quite a pain and is, IMHO, pretty much a bug (there are other annoying "features" like that in the Intel toolchain, for example that the assembler insists on all external symbols being declared; what a pain...). If we need to have a workaround, we can add one but we should clearly document why the ugly hacks are needed. --david