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From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Fastboot mailing list <fastboot@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: WARNING: Absolute relocations present
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:35:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <459B5CAA.6080600@m3y3r.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070103055312.GA25433@in.ibm.com>

Vivek Goyal schrieb:
> What's your ld version. I don't remember but some particular versions
> of ld will have this problem. These ld versions do some optimizations
> and if a section size is zero then linker gets rid of that section and
> any symbol defined w.r.t removed section, ld makes that symbol absolute
> instead of section relative. That's why you see above warnings. 
>
> I had raised this issue on binutils mailing list and they fixed it.
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2006-09/msg00305.html
>
> I am using following ld version and it works fine for me.
>
> GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.6-2.el5 20061020
>  
> So you will have to move to the latest ld version and problem should be
> resolved.
>   
Correct. I'm using binutils version 2.17. This is the current testing 
branch of gentoo for x86.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-01-03  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-22 14:33 WARNING: Absolute relocations present Thomas Meyer
2007-01-03  5:53 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-01-03  7:35   ` Thomas Meyer [this message]

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