Re: PATCH: PR ld/4409: --unresolved-symbols=ignore-all issues on ia64

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 05:18 -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>> Can you review this patch?
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-07/msg00065.html
>
> I've been out of the office for two weeks.  I took a quick look, and I
> see that you are trying to handle ia64 differently from everything else,
> which looks odd.  I would want to understand why you are doing that.

With --unresolved-symbols=ignore-all, ia64 linker keeps going when
seeing an unresolved symbol, which leads to segfault when checking
PLT entry.

> Unfortunately, I don't have access to an ia64 machine at the moment, and
> can't easily build a linux cross compiler without a sysroot, so I don't
> have a way to reproduce the problem at the moment.  I'm also a bit over
> worked trying to catch up on my work backlog, and it may take me some
> time before I can look at this.
>

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.