On 04/20/2012 04:14 PM, David Daney wrote: >> >> I think Linus is right and the right thing to do is to switch to using >> relative entries in the exception table; I am currently testing a >> patchset to do exactly that (on x86). It also has the benefit of making >> the table half the size on x86-64. Then we can just zero out the >> .rel[a]__ex_table section and be done with it. > > That's fine. > > In any event we want to do build time sorting, this patch improves the > original sortextable, so may be worthwhile as purely a cleanup. I > wanted to fix the relocation breakage, even if the eventual solution > needs to be somewhat different. > Yes... let me finish the patchset and then you can look at what is needed. -hpa
