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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: clean up vdso-layout.lds.S
Date: Tue,  9 Jun 2009 01:09:33 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090609080933.E68BEFC3B2@magilla.sf.frob.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Petr Tesarik's message of  Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:57:37 +0200 <1244534257.5199.31.camel@nathan.suse.cz>

> Which version of binutils are you using? I'm using binutils-2.19, and
> all empty sections get completely discarded, i.e. they do not affect the
> size of the output in any way.

Oh, empty, sure.  So then what is ".broken" for at all?
I thought this was for the nonempty-but-useless ones like .got et al
that the linker will insist on creating but we don't really need in the vDSO.


Thanks,
Roland

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-09  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-01 14:05 Petr Tesarik
2009-06-05 15:25 ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-05 16:27   ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-05 16:24     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-09  7:32       ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-05 20:07   ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-09  7:26     ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-09  7:52       ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-09  7:57         ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-09  8:09           ` Roland McGrath [this message]
2009-06-09  8:29             ` Petr Tesarik
2009-06-09 15:41         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-09 18:11       ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-09 18:16         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-09 19:22           ` Sam Ravnborg

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