On 08.11.2006 [13:44:16 -0800], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> On 06.11.2006 [11:00:03 +1100], David Gibson wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I've discovered this patch doesn't work on AMD64.
> > Also, the errors there made me realise that in a sense it only works
> > by accident on i386 and powerpc:  this method imports non-fPIC code
> > from libc.a into a shared library, which certainly isn't guaranteed to
> > work.
> > 
> > I'll need to think a bit harder about this (although for now, I think
> > it's still more robust than the old version, we'll just need to
> > disable it for AMD64).
> 
> Yes, and a patch should either be sent in to do so, or revert this
> commit please.

Please note, my point here is that this was committed without sufficient
testing:

34c2ee9987c2945012bb4edd23ab924adcb57d46 is first bad commit
commit 34c2ee9987c2945012bb4edd23ab924adcb57d46
Author: aglitke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:   Fri Nov 3 16:01:09 2006 -0600

    elflink: Restore unmapped_abort debugging info

Thanks,
Nish

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Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
IBM Linux Technology Center

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