Re: port-amd64/43438: x86 module map size is limited

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/43438; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-amd64/43438: x86 module map size is limited
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:10:18 +0200

 On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 06:40:05PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
 >  ...
 >  >  +.if ${MKDEBUG} != "no"
 >  >  +KMODDEBUG=      mv ${PROG} ${PROG}.gdb && \
 >  >  +                ${STRIP} --strip-debug --remove-section=.eh_frame \
 >  >  +                    -o ${PROG} ${PROG}.gdb
 >  
 >  I'm sure I remember there being symbols in the .eh_frame section that
 >  get referenced from elsewhere.
 >  This means (at least for userspace) you can't use objcopy to remove the
 >  section, but must tell gcc to not generate it.
 
 I had a quick look to gcc, but nothing obvious :(
 
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