Re: [PATCH 1/4] modpost: support objects with more than 64k sections

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On Thursday 29 July 2010 01:47, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> This patch makes modpost able to process object files with more than
> 64k sections. Needed for huge kernel builds (allyesconfig, for example)
> with -ffunction-sections.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I forgot to mention in the changelog that 64k sections handling
is covered, for example, by this document:

"IA-64 gABI Proposal 74: Section Indexes"
http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/abi/prop-74-sindex.html

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