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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:38:39 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] makefile: detect corrupted elf files
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

On 22 May 2013 09:37, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> It's my fault for running -rc kernels all the time I guess, I get
> crashes kind of often, and losing more time on make clean
> on top of reboot annoys me.
> But we actually could make it robust, even against OS crash. Output to a
> temporary file then rename.  This hack won't be needed then.

I think that would be better implemented in the compiler/linker :-)
Alternatively, stop doing compiles on horribly unstable kernels.

-- PMM