Bug#518088: mklibs handling of STT_SPARC_REGISTER on SPARC64

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

tag 518088 pending
thanks

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> This patch fixes a problem using mklibs for SPARC64.  The psABI for
> this platform involves undefined, null-name symbols of type
> STT_SPARC_REGISTER describing how registers are used by objects, which
> are not of any use to mklibs (which cannot handle unnamed symbols in
> the output of mklibs-readelf).

Thanks for submitting the bug report.

Although I cannot really judge the validity of the patch, your 
argumentation is clear and I've verified that a D-I build still runs 
without problems. So I've committed the patch in SVN.

Bastian: time for an upload? Can you take care of it?

Cheers,
FJP