[PATCH] scripts: Make check-symfile.py work on alpha

The script expects each of the symbols that it looks for to be in one of three sections, which in nm(1) are described as follows: T - The symbol is in the text (code) section. B - The symbol is in the BSS data section. This section typically contains zero-initialized or uninitialized data, although the exact behavior is system dependent. D - The symbol is in the initialized data section. When building on alpha, however, some of the symbols show up in one of two additional sections, specifically: S - The symbol is in an uninitialized or zero-initialized data section for small objects. G - The symbol is in an initialized data section for small objects. In other words, S is the same as B and G is the same as D, except with some optimization for small objects that for some reason is applied on alpha but not on other architectures. I have confirmed that, for all the symbols that the script complained about being missing on alpha, the section is the expected one, that is, symbols that are reported as B on x86 are reported as S on alpha, and symbols that are reported as D on x86 are reported as G on alpha. Note that, while the B section doesn't seem to be used at all on alpha, at least in our case, the D section still is. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- scripts/check-symfile.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/check-symfile.py b/scripts/check-symfile.py index 0f6e780df0..c2ee405118 100755 --- a/scripts/check-symfile.py +++ b/scripts/check-symfile.py @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ for elflib in elflibs: for line in nm: line = line.decode("utf-8") - symmatch = re.search(r'''^\S+\s(?:[TBD])\s(\S+)\s*$''', line) + symmatch = re.search(r'''^\S+\s(?:[TBSDG])\s(\S+)\s*$''', line) if symmatch is None: continue -- 2.43.0