From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 79002 invoked by alias); 25 Jun 2018 19:14:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 78920 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jun 2018 19:14:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Ping, H*r:0700 X-HELO: 9pmail.ess.barracuda.com Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:14:00 -0000 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Subject: [PING][PATCH 0/2] Accept absolute symbols whose value is zero [BZ #23307] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Return-Path: macro@mips.com X-BESS-Apparent-Source-IP: 12.201.5.32 X-SW-Source: 2018-06/txt/msg00754.txt.bz2 On Mon, 18 Jun 2018, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > I have created a small patch series to address this problem. The first > part is the actual fix. The second part is an ABI bump, so that the > linker can set the minimum ABI required for an absolute symbol created to > address the issue covered in PR ld/21375 and make old dynamic loaders fail > with "ELF file ABI version invalid" rather than confusing "undefined > symbol". Ping for: I'd like to see these changes in 2.28. Maciej