Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: binutils woes | | From | Martin Schlemmer <> | | Date | Thu, 01 Jul 2004 21:44:10 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 20:07, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:47:31AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 05:52:31PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > On ARM, we appear to have somewhat of a problem with binutils. At > > > least the following binutils suffer from a problem whereby it is > > > possible to create programs which contain undefined symbols: > > [snip] > > > I think the only way we can ensure kernel correctness is to add a > > > subsequent stage to kbuild such that whenever we generate a final > > > program, we grep the 'nm' output for undefined symbols. > > > > > > Comments? > > > > Is there a version of binutils that really does get things right? If > > so, can't you Just Say No to older versions and force people to upgrade > > (with a simple testcase done upfront) ? > > I've just tested: > > GNU assembler 2.15.90 20040409 > Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of > the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty. > This assembler was configured for a target of `arm-linux'. >
You might try (which should be on any kernel mirror):
GNU assembler 2.15.91.0.1 20040527 Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty. This assembler was configured for a target of `i686-pc-linux-gnu'.
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