Re: Fwd: binutils in debian unstable is broken.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 5 Dec 2001 08:43:39 +0000 (GMT)


> The problem appears to be that the linker is now actually doing what
> we asked it to do, so the `remove_foo' entry in that table now points
> at a function which isn't going to be linked into the kernel. Oh dear.

The ideal it seems would be for binutils to support passing a stub function
to use in such cases. That would keep the kernel stuff working nicely and
allow us to do panic("__exit code called"); if anyone actually did manage
to call one.
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