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SubjectRe: [PATCH] modpost: Update 64k section support for binutils 2.18.50
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:30:13 -0400 (EDT), Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com> wrote:
> Binutils 2.18.50 made a backwards-incompatible change in the way it
> writes ELF objects with over 65280 sections, to improve conformance
> with the ELF specification and interoperability with other ELF tools.
> Specifically, it no longer adds 256 to section indices SHN_LORESERVE
> and higher to skip over the reserved range SHN_LORESERVE through
> SHN_HIRESERVE; those values are only considered special in the
> st_shndx field, and not in other places where section indices are
> stored. See:
>
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5900
> http://groups.google.com/group/generic-abi/browse_thread/thread/e8bb63714b072e67/6c63738f12cc8a17

Applied.

Thanks,
Rusty.


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