Re: [PATCH] scripts: Make sortextable handle relocations.

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 04/20/2012 04:14 PM, David Daney wrote:
>>
>> I think Linus is right and the right thing to do is to switch to using
>> relative entries in the exception table; I am currently testing a
>> patchset to do exactly that (on x86).  It also has the benefit of making
>> the table half the size on x86-64.  Then we can just zero out the
>> .rel[a]__ex_table section and be done with it.
> 
> That's fine.
> 
> In any event we want to do build time sorting, this patch improves the
> original sortextable, so may be worthwhile as purely a cleanup.  I
> wanted to fix the relocation breakage, even if the eventual solution
> needs to be somewhat different.
> 

Yes... let me finish the patchset and then you can look at what is needed.

        -hpa