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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/33] powerpc: Ignore TOC relocations
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Hi Alan,

> > The linker fixes up TOC. relocations, so prom_init_check.sh should
> > ignore them.
> 
> Err, .TOC. you mean.  Presumably something strips off the leading dot
> somewhere?

Yeah, the script strips them:

        # On 64-bit nm gives us the function descriptors, which have
        # a leading . on the name, so strip it off here.
        UNDEF="${UNDEF#.}"

I'll modify the commit message to be less confusing.

Anton