Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] symbols: prefix static symbols with their source file names

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 05:49 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> This requires adjustments to the tool generating the symbol table and
> its as well as nm's invocation.
> 
> Note: Not warning about duplicate symbols in the EFI case for now, as
> a binutils bug causes misnamed file name entries to appear in EFI
> binaries' symbol tables when the file name is longer than 18 chars.
> (Not doing so also avoids other duplicates getting printed twice.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Also special case file names with directory part (along with
>     object ones). Mirror xen-syms linking changes to ARM, but for now
>     without generating warnings.

Thanks for taking care of ARM. I assume "without generating warnings"
differs from the x86 behaviour? Is there some followup which us ARM folks
ought to be looking into making?

Ian.

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