[syslinux] without msdos filesystem

[Ram Yalamanchili]

I can confirm the shipped binaries fail the same way with "floating
point exceptions" on ubuntu edgy.

On 2/6/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> >
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc6/en_US/sn-Devel.html#id2956225
> >
> > <quote>
> > Fedora developers have introduced changes in the ELF .hash section that
> > provides symbols for dynamic linking. This new .gnu.hash section, which
> > is produced with the new default --hash-style=gnu option for gcc, serves
> > the same purpose as previous hash sections. It provides, however, an
> > approximately 50% increase in dynamic linking speed. Binaries and
> > libraries produced with the new hashing function are incompatible with
> > older glibc and dynamic linker releases. To use the old-style hashing
> > routines for compatibility with older glibc-based systems, pass the
> > --hash-style=sysv option instead.
> > </quote>
> >
> > There's also --hash-style=both, that should add both hashes. From
> > gcc -dumpspecs (did just now an yum update), the default hash style is
> > "gnu", not "both".
> >
>
> Well, that's stupid in the extreme.
>
>         -hpa
>
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