Re: local symbol 0: discarded in section `.exit.text' from drivers/built-in.o

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 00:30:18 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:

| 
| For some reason the ia64 toolchain like to find these...
| 
| linux-tiger:/usr/src/25> reference_discarded.pl
| Finding objects, 1137 objects, ignoring 0 module(s)
| Finding conglomerates, ignoring 119 conglomerate(s)
| Scanning objects
| Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2100.o .debug_info refers to 0000000000011fef DIR64LSB          .exit.text
| Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2100.o .debug_info refers to 0000000000012310 DIR64LSB          .exitcall.exit
| Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2100.o .debug_line refers to 000000000000069d DIR64LSB          .exit.text
| Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2100.o .debug_aranges refers to 0000000000000030 DIR64LSB          .exit.text
| Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2200.o .debug_info refers to 0000000000011fef DIR64LSB          .exit.text
| Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2200.o .debug_info refers to 0000000000012310 DIR64LSB          .exitcall.exit
| Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2200.o .debug_line refers to 000000000000069d DIR64LSB          .exit.text
| Error: ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2200.o .debug_aranges refers to 0000000000000030 DIR64LSB          .exit.text
| 
| Can anyone suggest what has actually caused this to happen?  I have
| CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n.


I don't see those with gcc 3.3.1, but maybe my 'reference_discarded.pl'
script isn't good enough.
Is yours from:  http://www.kernelnewbies.org/scripts/ ?

| Using gcc (GCC) 3.5.0 20040206 (experimental)
| 
| 
| Also, I am heartily sick of this gunk from the assembler:
| 
| {standard input}:20882: Warning: This is the location of the conflicting usage  {standard input}:20917: Warning: Use of 'ld4' may violate RAW dependency 'DBR#' (data)
| {standard input}:20917: Warning: Only the first path encountering the conflict is reported
| {standard input}:20882: Warning: This is the location of the conflicting usage
| {standard input}:20917: Warning: Use of 'ld4' may violate RAW dependency 'DBR#' (data)
| 
| Has that been fixed yet?  If so, which is a good version of binutils to
| start using?

Yep, I see those too.  :(

--
~Randy
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(Again.  Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature)
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