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

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:40:08PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 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?

Only -n.

> 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).

Ugg - in that case, we need to go with the "match the name" version
until these changes in binutils have matured (== 2 or 3 years time.)

-- 
Russell King
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