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From: Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@linaro.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@imgtec.com>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>,
		binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PR ld/21233: Avoid sweeping forced-undefined symbols in section GC
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKdteOb8HLF6g42eg88tOeZKXxNgqDwgXsGsXqN1pCw8wPpQ6g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1704191344350.25796@tp.orcam.me.uk>

On 19 April 2017 at 14:52, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Christophe Lyon wrote:
>
>> I've noticed that these tests fail on aarch64 and arm targets:
>>
>> ./ld/ld.sum:FAIL: PR ld/21233 dynamic symbols with section GC (--undefined)
>> ./ld/ld.sum:FAIL: PR ld/21233 dynamic symbols with section GC
>> (--require-defined)
>> ./ld/ld.sum:FAIL: PR ld/21233 dynamic symbols with section GC (EXTERN)
>>
>> Is it a known problem?
>
>  I guess it depends to whom.  It was certainly discussed and symptoms of
> the problem with the respective backends (though not its cause) identified
> in this thread, and pieces of that consideration were even present in the
> part you quoted.
>

:-) Indeed, it looks like I missed a few parts.
I'm not following binutils closely, but I'm annoyed with seeing my binutils
Jenkins job red :-) (so, I do not plan to fix the problem myself).

I should turn 'make check' into 'make check+compare with previous'
to make sure to catch regressions...

Thanks,

Christophe

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-19 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-27 11:39 Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-04-04  8:47 ` Alan Modra
2017-04-04 22:43   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-04-05  2:11     ` Alan Modra
2017-04-05 16:07       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-04-19 12:02     ` Christophe Lyon
2017-04-19 12:52       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-04-19 13:55         ` Christophe Lyon [this message]
2017-04-05  1:13 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2017-04-05 16:03   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2017-04-05 21:38     ` Hans-Peter Nilsson

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