Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] modversions: treat symbol CRCs as 32 bit quantities on 64 bit archs

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:52 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It turns out that this odd treatment of absolute symbols (i.e.,
> symbols having section number SHN_ABS) is a known issue in GNU ld
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-05/msg00019.html

Ugh. I hate the GNU linker. It's slow, it does nasty crazy fixups, and
it's apparently buggy too.

I wonder what happened to gold, and why it didn't take over. I'm
assuming it had _other_ bugs.. Oh well.

                 Linus