Re: 2.6.7-mm6

William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-06T22:53:16Z

William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>>> Third, some naive check for undefined symbols failed to understand the
>>> relocation types indicating that a given operand refers to some hard
>>> register, which manifest as undefined symbols in ELF executables. A
>>> patch to refine its criteria, which I used to build with, follows. rmk
>>> and hpa have some other ideas on this undefined symbol issue I've not
>>> quite had the opportunity to get a clear statement of yet.

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:34:17 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > I converted that to a non-fatal warning due to the same problem on sparc64.

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:45:55PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Andrew, Russell posted to us in private email an objdump based
> check that didn't trigger for the register declaration case.

He seems not to have cc:'d me. Apparently *UND* isn't always the fourth
field so he did objdump --syms vmlinux | grep '^[^R][^E][^G].*\*UND\*'
instead of the awk expression I brewed up.

-- wli