Re: [PATCH] exclude h8300 local symbols (Re: kallsyms exclude localsymbols)

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Mon Sep 08 2008 - 19:41:16 EST


On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Yoshinori Sato wrote:
> At Sun, 7 Sep 2008 23:56:27 -0700,
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > This patch broke kallsyms on powerpc. Please see
> > http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-September/062549.html
>
> Hmm...
> h8300 local symbol head of '.L'.
> But powerpc don't have '.L' pattern.
> I think add condition "str[1] == 'L'".

No, that won't work right on PowerPC if there's function called
something like LookUpTable: we want the symbol ".LookUpTable".

Hugh
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