Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754234Ab1D0GHU (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:07:20 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:48992 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753557Ab1D0GHO (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:07:14 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: Anders Kaseorg , Michal Marek Cc: Denys Vlasenko , Tim Abbott , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] modpost: Update 64k section support for binutils 2.18.50 In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Notmuch/0.3.1 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:02:41 +0930 Message-ID: <877hagl0na.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1013 Lines: 22 On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:30:13 -0400 (EDT), Anders Kaseorg wrote: > Binutils 2.18.50 made a backwards-incompatible change in the way it > writes ELF objects with over 65280 sections, to improve conformance > with the ELF specification and interoperability with other ELF tools. > Specifically, it no longer adds 256 to section indices SHN_LORESERVE > and higher to skip over the reserved range SHN_LORESERVE through > SHN_HIRESERVE; those values are only considered special in the > st_shndx field, and not in other places where section indices are > stored. See: > > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5900 > http://groups.google.com/group/generic-abi/browse_thread/thread/e8bb63714b072e67/6c63738f12cc8a17 Applied. Thanks, Rusty. -- 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/