From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:40405 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751039Ab0G2ANc (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:13:32 -0400 From: Denys Vlasenko Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] modpost: support objects with more than 64k sections Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:13:26 +0200 References: <1280360876-2571-1-git-send-email-vda.linux@googlemail.com> <1280360876-2571-2-git-send-email-vda.linux@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <1280360876-2571-2-git-send-email-vda.linux@googlemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201007290213.26738.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Michal Marek Cc: linux-kbuild , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg On Thursday 29 July 2010 01:47, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > This patch makes modpost able to process object files with more than > 64k sections. Needed for huge kernel builds (allyesconfig, for example) > with -ffunction-sections. > > Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko > Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg > Cc: Rusty Russell > Cc: Andi Kleen I forgot to mention in the changelog that 64k sections handling is covered, for example, by this document: "IA-64 gABI Proposal 74: Section Indexes" http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/abi/prop-74-sindex.html -- vda