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Date:   Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:38:28 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/tools/relocs: Add _etext and __end_of_kernel_reserve
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 03:23:49PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> Pre-2.23 binutils makes symbols defined outside sections absolute, so
> these two symbols break the build on old linkers.

-ENOTENOUGHINFO

Which old linkers, how exactly do they break the build, etc etc?

Please give exact reproduction steps.

Thx.

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