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Subject: Re: avoid producing empty set_pcpu section [Was: elf obj load: skip
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on 15/07/2010 14:39 Kostik Belousov said the following:
> 
> Is new behaviour completely identical to the behaviour of the newer
> ld ? 

No, it's not completely identical.
__start_SECNAME placement would be identical, but our ld would still assign the
symbol while latest upstream binutils PROVIDES it.

> Even if yes, I think that such changes make potential import of
> newer binutils harder.

How?

-- 
Andriy Gapon