On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:33:20 +1030 Alan Modra <amo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 12:02:06AM +1100, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > I was building BookE and big endian with a little endian cross > > compiler and it stopped working. My BookS BE tests must have been > > building using the ELFv2 ABI. After this, the build sometimes still > > strangely fails with dot symbols in syscall table unable to be found, > > but that's looking like it may be a linker bug (Alan is going to take > > a look). > > Yes it is a bug. In compatibility code that was supposed to handle > mixing old object files that use dot-symbols on function entry with > newer object files that don't. Here, "old" means mid 2004 or > earlier. > > As you can imagine, I'm not hugely concerned about the ld bug.. > > Since every binutils back to at least 2.17 has the bug, what changed > in the kernel to expose it? Are you building without -mcall-aixdesc? > Yeah, it's my attempt to get powerpc64le compiler to build big endian with -mabi=elfv2, so I'd have missed -mcall-aixdesc somewhere. Thanks, Nick
