Re: powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

[Michael Ellerman]

On Fri, 2016-05-02 at 18:50:03 UTC, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Since binutils 2.26 BFD is doing suffix merging on STRTAB sections.  But
> dedotify modifies the symbol names in place, which can also modify
> unrelated symbols with a name that matches a suffix of a dotted name.  To
> remove the leading dot of a symbol name we can just increment the pointer
> into the STRTAB section instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f15838e9cac8f78f0cc506529b

cheers