PR 26580 revert 36efe0aea5f7
Project / Subsystem
binutils / binutils
Date
2026-09-10
Proposer
Alan Modra
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
Sentiment
—/10
Technical tradeoffs
- • Reverts a change that introduced regressions on MIPS targets.
- • Highlights potential issues in MIPS target support regarding shared library symbol handling.
- • Undoes a previous 'fix' to expose a deeper problem.
All attributes
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- binutils
- subsystem
- binutils
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- aqJs6e6OOLl4MYfu@squeak.grove.modra.org
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- public_inbox
- title
- PR 26580 revert 36efe0aea5f7
- headline
- PR 26580 revert 36efe0aea5f7
- tldr
- Reverts a change that caused failures on MIPS targets related to shared library BSS symbols.
- proposer
- Alan Modra
- consensus
- Proposed
- outcome
- proposed
- sentiment_score
- —
- technical_tradeoffs
-
- • Reverts a change that introduced regressions on MIPS targets.
- • Highlights potential issues in MIPS target support regarding shared library symbol handling.
- • Undoes a previous 'fix' to expose a deeper problem.
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- standalone
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- []
- tags
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- • MIPS
- • ELF
- • linker
- • shared libraries
- • BSS
- bugzilla_url
- —
- date
- 2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z
PR 26580 revert 36efe0aea5f7
This submission reverts commit 36efe0aea5f7 which attempted to fix a test case on some MIPS targets. The reverted commit inadvertently caused new failures (pr26580-1, pr26580-2) on mips*-elf and mips-sgi-irix6 targets. The author believes these new failures are correct, indicating that these MIPS targets do not properly handle BSS symbols in shared libraries, a behavior the reverted commit might have masked.