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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:18:02 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH RFC] armv7: fixloop: don't fixup if location is
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Le 08/01/2011 11:49, Albert ARIBAUD a ?crit :

>> In my investigations for 'NULL fixup' (-> see
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/89864/focus=89906)
>> pointed out that only symbols in 'absolute fixup' loop could be 'NULL'
>> if there is a not aliased/empty weakly linked symbol.

BTW: is such a situation normal? IIUC, it means there is a weakly linked 
symbol without *any* defintion, *and* it is referenced in the code. 
Granted, maybe it is checked before it is referenced, but we may want to 
check for and report at build time if possible. Would that be useful?

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.