From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932562AbcBIMQ3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2016 07:16:29 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:43372 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932134AbcBIMQI (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2016 07:16:08 -0500 X-powerpc-patch-notification: thanks X-powerpc-patch-commit: f15838e9cac8f78f0cc506529bb9d3b9fa589c1f In-Reply-To: <87bn7vm1pg.fsf@linux-m68k.org> To: Andreas Schwab , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org From: Michael Ellerman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26 Message-Id: <20160209121607.9FFE71401CD@ozlabs.org> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 23:16:07 +1100 (AEDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2016-05-02 at 18:50:03 UTC, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Since binutils 2.26 BFD is doing suffix merging on STRTAB sections. But > dedotify modifies the symbol names in place, which can also modify > unrelated symbols with a name that matches a suffix of a dotted name. To > remove the leading dot of a symbol name we can just increment the pointer > into the STRTAB section instead. > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f15838e9cac8f78f0cc506529b cheers