From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modpost: Update 64k section support for binutils 2.18.50
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:02:41 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hagl0na.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1104251122320.26664@dr-wily.mit.edu>
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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