Re: [PATCH 2/5] kbuild: allow archs to select build for link dead code/data elimination

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On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 9:20:16 AM CEST Alan Modra wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 05:14:27PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > I have reverted that patch now, so ARM uses ".fixup" again like every
> > other architecture does, and now "*(.fixup) *(.text .text.*)" works
> > correctly, while ""*(.fixup) *(.text .fixup .text.*)" also fails
> > the same way that I saw before:
> 
> That is really odd.  The linker isn't supposed to treat those script
> snippets differently.  First match for .fixup wins.

Sorry for my mistake. I checked again and cannot reproduce what I
thought I saw earlier. "*(.fixup) *(.text .text.*)" fails
as would be expected.

	Arnd
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