Thumb patches

[Khem Raj]

Joakim Tjernlund said the following on 11/16/2006 11:09 AM:
>> Joakim Tjernlund said the following on 11/15/2006 11:51 PM:
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>>>> On a related note, either r16526 or r16527 broke 
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>> arm-linux-gnueabi. 
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>>>> Dynamically linked ARM binaries segfault somewhere in the 
>>>> dynamic loader.
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>>> My guess would be r16527.
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>> Indeed it is. and specifically the change made to 
>> ldso/ldso/dl-hash.c is 
>> causing the segfault. It works fine with binutils 2.16.
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>>>  Jocke
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> How about commenting on issues 1) and 2)?
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Joakim

The newer binutils do not generate special STT_ARM_TFUNC symbols instead 
it encode LSB as 1 to denote Thumb symbols and thats what this code was 
doing. So I think the patch to ldso/ldso/dl-hash.c can be avoided 
completely.
We can safely ask newer binutils to be used for thumb to work.

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Khem Raj
MontaVista Software Inc.
kraj at mvista.com