From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755436AbXGLEtT (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:49:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751236AbXGLEtM (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:49:12 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:55969 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751004AbXGLEtL (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:49:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4695B28E.2020603@goop.org> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:48:14 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070615) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland McGrath CC: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] Use --build-id ld option References: <20070711190533.B68534D0555@magilla.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20070711190533.B68534D0555@magilla.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roland McGrath wrote: > This change passes the --build-id when linking the kernel and when > linking modules, if ld supports it. This is a new GNU ld option that > synthesizes an ELF note section inside the read-only data. The note in > this section contains unique identifying bits called the "build ID", > which are generated so as to be different for any two linked ELF files > that aren't identical. Does this mean that performing the same link twice *will* produce an identical result? J