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SubjectRe: binutils woes
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) ?

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Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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