Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759193AbZFIIKI (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 04:10:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755864AbZFIIJx (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 04:09:53 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:58346 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755482AbZFIIJv (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 04:09:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Petr Tesarik X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: Sam Ravnborg , LKML , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: clean up vdso-layout.lds.S In-Reply-To: Petr Tesarik's message of Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:57:37 +0200 <1244534257.5199.31.camel@nathan.suse.cz> References: <1243865115.24278.8.camel@nathan.suse.cz> <1244215559.1604.12.camel@nathan.suse.cz> <20090605200701.GB23195@uranus.ravnborg.org> <1244532418.5199.24.camel@nathan.suse.cz> <20090609075247.DA95CFC3B2@magilla.sf.frob.com> <1244534257.5199.31.camel@nathan.suse.cz> X-Zippy-Says: How do I get HOME? Message-Id: <20090609080933.E68BEFC3B2@magilla.sf.frob.com> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 01:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 646 Lines: 16 > Which version of binutils are you using? I'm using binutils-2.19, and > all empty sections get completely discarded, i.e. they do not affect the > size of the output in any way. Oh, empty, sure. So then what is ".broken" for at all? I thought this was for the nonempty-but-useless ones like .got et al that the linker will insist on creating but we don't really need in the vDSO. Thanks, Roland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/