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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:02:40 +0100
From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [1.7] binutils-2.19.51-1: ld -r bug ?
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Christian Franke wrote:
> Testing build of grub 1.97 beta on Cygwin 1.7, I found that the grub
> .mod files are much larger than on 1.5. The modules are build by 'ld -r'
> (and later converted to ELF).
> 
> The root of the problem is that the binutils-2.19.51-1 ld behavior
> differs from previous 1.5 binutils. The new ld increases the size of
> each segment by the size of the previous segment. Bug?

  Yes, it looks so.  Thanks for the report, this is now tracked at

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10634

    cheers,
      DaveK

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