From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: GAS: Add option to generate unused section symbols
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 12:32:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8797eece-ccb6-5c2e-0313-81e95f98d90d@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.20.2203041615370.19749@wotan.suse.de>
Hi Guys,
On 3/4/22 16:19, Michael Matz wrote:
> This problem was fixed in the kernel (and backported by distros to their
> kernels if binutils was updated); it's fairly simplistic changes.
>
> I don't see the need for returning (optionally) to the old behaviour
> again. I mean, at the time, when 2.36 came out, sure, the patch might
> have made sense, but now?
Great - I was actually hoping that this would be the response. But I was
not sure how the kernel folks felt about the issue, so I thought that it
would be worth generating a patch just in case. (Besides it was fun to
write). I am quite happy to set it aside however.
Cheers
Nick
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-07 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-04 15:54 Nick Clifton
2022-03-04 16:05 ` H.J. Lu
2022-03-04 16:19 ` Michael Matz
2022-03-07 12:32 ` Nick Clifton [this message]
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