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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] MIPS: VDSO: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link
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On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, Nathan Chancellor wrote:

> Before this patch, LD=ld.lld did nothing:
> 
> $ llvm-readelf -p.comment arch/mips/vdso/vdso.so.dbg | sed 's/(.*//'
> String dump of section '.comment':
> [     0] ClangBuiltLinux clang version 11.0.0

 What does it mean "did nothing", is `arch/mips/vdso/vdso.so.dbg.raw' not 
produced?  Where does `arch/mips/vdso/vdso.so.dbg' come from then?

  Maciej