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Re: powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

From Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26
Date 2016-02-09 13:20 +0100
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On Fri, 2016-05-02 at 18:50:03 UTC, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Since binutils 2.26 BFD is doing suffix merging on STRTAB sections.  But
> dedotify modifies the symbol names in place, which can also modify
> unrelated symbols with a name that matches a suffix of a dotted name.  To
> remove the leading dot of a symbol name we can just increment the pointer
> into the STRTAB section instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f15838e9cac8f78f0cc506529b

cheers

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[PATCH] powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26 Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-02-05 20:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> - 2016-02-07 01:20 +0100
  Re: powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26 Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-02-09 13:20 +0100

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