Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:27:56 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] modversions: treat symbol CRCs as 32 bit quantities on 64 bit archs |
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:52 AM, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > It turns out that this odd treatment of absolute symbols (i.e., > symbols having section number SHN_ABS) is a known issue in GNU ld > > https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-05/msg00019.html
Ugh. I hate the GNU linker. It's slow, it does nasty crazy fixups, and it's apparently buggy too.
I wonder what happened to gold, and why it didn't take over. I'm assuming it had _other_ bugs.. Oh well.
Linus
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