[PATCH] elflint.c (check_symtab): Add __bss_start__ to the list of allowed symbols.

Mark Wielaard mjw at redhat.com
Sun Feb 24 22:01:55 UTC 2013


Some architectures (ARM) use __bss_start__ instead of __bss_start.

Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com>
---
 src/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
 src/elflint.c | 1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 7d7b66f..6e219e6 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-02-24  Mark Wielaard  <mjw at redhat.com>
+
+	* elflint.c (check_symtab): Add __bss_start__ to the list of symbols
+	allowed to have out of section values because of GNU ld bugs.
+
 2013-02-06  Mark Wielaard  <mjw at redhat.com>
 
 	* elflint.c (check_symtab): Add __bss_start and __TMC_END__ to the
diff --git a/src/elflint.c b/src/elflint.c
index bc5ed33..acd458b 100644
--- a/src/elflint.c
+++ b/src/elflint.c
@@ -782,6 +782,7 @@ section [%2d] '%s': symbol %zu: function in COMMON section is nonsense\n"),
 				  && strcmp (name, "__fini_array_start") != 0
 				  && strcmp (name, "__fini_array_end") != 0
 				  && strcmp (name, "__bss_start") != 0
+				  && strcmp (name, "__bss_start__") != 0
 				  && strcmp (name, "__TMC_END__") != 0))
 			    ERROR (gettext ("\
 section [%2d] '%s': symbol %zu: st_value out of bounds\n"),
-- 
1.8.1.2



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