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Commit 1ce53adf authored by Denys Vlasenko's avatar Denys Vlasenko Committed by Michal Marek
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modpost: support objects with more than 64k sections

This patch makes modpost able to process object files with more than
64k sections. Needed for huge kernel builds (allyesconfig, for example)
with -ffunction-sections. 64k sections handling is covered, for example,
by this document:

"IA-64 gABI Proposal 74: Section Indexes"
http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/abi/prop-74-sindex.html



Signed-off-by: default avatarDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Acked-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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