Re: [PATCH] scripts/sortextable: support objects with more than 64Ksections.

From: David Daney
Date: Mon Nov 05 2012 - 18:51:09 EST


On 11/05/2012 01:06 AM, Jamie Iles wrote:
Building with a large config and -ffunction-sections results in a large
number of sections and sortextable needs to be able to handle that.
Implement support for > 64K sections as modpost does.

Cc: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/sortextable.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
scripts/sortextable.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


I don't plan on extensively testing this, but I have no objections.

David Daney
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