On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:56:45PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
Hi Kurt,
That is most likely because you are using a new binutils/gas which
includes this patch:
2009-07-24 Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com>
Mark Wielaard <mjw(a)redhat.com>
* config/obj-elf.c (obj_elf_ident): Set SEC_MERGE | SEC_STRINGS
flags on .comment section.
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-07/msg00277.html
I don't know which binutils release that was part of though.
$ ld -v
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.19.91.20090910
The previous release was build using 2.19.51.20090805.
Kurt