Re: binutils trouble was Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Mon Aug 27 2007 - 04:34:20 EST


On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 12:42:05AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:29:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Debian 4.0 has older ones, and all distributions released more than a
> > year ago for sure also have older ones (the required patch went into
> > binutils CVS on 2006-05-30 and 2.17.50.0.3 was released on 2006-07-15).
>
> I have no problem on SUSE 10.0 (2.16.91.0.2-8) or SLES9 (2.15.90.0.1.1-32.10)
> which are both far older than a year. Both produce good looking
> vdso.sos.
>
> sles8 (2.12.90.0.15; it was really one of the first production
> binutils for x86-64) doesn't work out of the box (looks like as-instr doesn't
> work anymore and it has another assembler issue I'll fix)
> but with that workarounded it also builds a reasonble looking vdso
>
> Sam, can you please take a look at the as-instr issue? It seems
> to succeed now when it should fail.
>
> It would be useful if someone could find out which binutils versions
> really not work.

Hi Andi.
I never got around to do any exhaustive check on as-instr.
I assume it was the .cfi_rel_offset thing that caused you to
assume as-instr was failing?
If not let me know if your request is still valid.

And sorry for being late on this. Busy and had forgotten this mail.

Sam
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