* Andreas Jochens: > Looking at the attached two outputs of 'objdump -t' for the file > 'obj/.libs/db185.o' on ppc64 and amd64 it appears that the symbols that > are in the '.text' section on amd64 are in a section named '.opd' on > ppc64.
That's because ppc64 uses function descriptors. It would probably make sense for binutils to mostly hide this distinction (unless there is a compelling reason not to do it). > I am not an object file format expert at all, but I would take this > as an indication that the current method of parsing of the nm output > to create the Versions script is not really portable. I still think this should be addressed in nm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]