Re: [RFC] ARM binutils feature churn causing kernel problems

Richard Earnshaw
2004-10-05T13:40:48Z

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 14:14, Russell King wrote:

> > Why don't you pass s to is_arm_mapping_symbol and have it do the same
> > thing as you've done in get_ksymbol?
>
> "sym_entry" is not an ELF symtab structure - it's a parsed version
> of the `nm' output, and as such does not contain the symbol type nor
> binding information.
>

Ah. That makes the question in your previous message make more sense
then. What options do you pass to nm?

Looking at the output of nm -fsysv shows that currently the mapping
symbols are being incorrectly typed (the EABI requires them to be
STT_NOTYPE, but the previous ELF specification -- not supported by GNU
utils -- required them to be typed by the data they addressed. I'll
submit a patch for that shortly).

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R.