Re: Bug#850887: Decide proper solution for binutils' mips* bug

James Cowgill <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:22:14 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips,gmane.linux.debian.devel.release
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

On 12/01/17 14:54, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> I would like to point out that it would be preferable if, in case a patch is 
> preferable over going back to the last know version to work, either Matthias 
> or a mips porter points out which of the two proposed patches is preferable.
> 
> For the time being I'm testing the patch I submited to the bug, but I have no 
> preference over any of them (nor technical grounds to discuss).

Both patches posted in the upstream bug should work. The first one fixes
a bug in the MIPS back end so that local symbols are sorted before
global symbols. This is probably the safer (although larger) patch
because it only touches the MIPS back end to try and bring it into line
with other architectures. The second patch prevents the questionable
local symbols from every appearing (so no sorting is necessary). This
should also be correct, although it will visibly change the contents of
the dynamic symbol table on all arches so I am slightly more
apprehensive because of that.

Side note: the patch you uploaded is not totally correct because it
isn't applied when building cross binutils (__mips__ will not be defined
there).

Thanks,
James

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