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-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
-#
-# reference_discarded.pl (C) Keith Owens 2001 <kaos@ocs.com.au>
-#
-# Released under GPL V2.
-#
-# List dangling references to vmlinux discarded sections.
-
-use strict;
-die($0 . " takes no arguments\n") if($#ARGV >= 0);
-
-my %object;
-my $object;
-my $line;
-my $ignore;
-my $errorcount;
-
-$| = 1;
-
-# printf("Finding objects, ");
-open(OBJDUMP_LIST, "find . -name '*.o' | xargs objdump -h |") || die "getting objdump list failed";
-while (defined($line = <OBJDUMP_LIST>)) {
-        chomp($line);
-        if ($line =~ /:\s+file format/) {
-                ($object = $line) =~ s/:.*//;
-                $object{$object}->{'module'} = 0;
-                $object{$object}->{'size'} = 0;
-                $object{$object}->{'off'} = 0;
-        }
-        if ($line =~ /^\s*\d+\s+\.modinfo\s+/) {
-                $object{$object}->{'module'} = 1;
-        }
-        if ($line =~ /^\s*\d+\s+\.comment\s+/) {
-                ($object{$object}->{'size'}, $object{$object}->{'off'}) = (split(' ', $line))[2,5];
-        }
-}
-close(OBJDUMP_LIST);
-# printf("%d objects, ", scalar keys(%object));
-$ignore = 0;
-foreach $object (keys(%object)) {
-        if ($object{$object}->{'module'}) {
-                ++$ignore;
-                delete($object{$object});
-        }
-}
-# printf("ignoring %d module(s)\n", $ignore);
-
-# Ignore conglomerate objects, they have been built from multiple objects and we
-# only care about the individual objects.  If an object has more than one GCC:
-# string in the comment section then it is conglomerate.  This does not filter
-# out conglomerates that consist of exactly one object, can't be helped.
-
-# printf("Finding conglomerates, ");
-$ignore = 0;
-foreach $object (keys(%object)) {
-        if (exists($object{$object}->{'off'})) {
-                my ($off, $size, $comment, $l);
-                $off = hex($object{$object}->{'off'});
-                $size = hex($object{$object}->{'size'});
-                open(OBJECT, "<$object") || die "cannot read $object";
-                seek(OBJECT, $off, 0) || die "seek to $off in $object failed";
-                $l = read(OBJECT, $comment, $size);
-                die "read $size bytes from $object .comment failed" if ($l != $size);
-                close(OBJECT);
-                if ($comment =~ /GCC\:.*GCC\:/m || $object =~ /built-in\.o/) {
-                        ++$ignore;
-                        delete($object{$object});
-                }
-        }
-}
-# printf("ignoring %d conglomerate(s)\n", $ignore);
-
-# printf("Scanning objects\n");
-
-# Keith Ownes <kaos@sgi.com> commented:
-# For our future {in}sanity, add a comment that this is the ppc .opd
-# section, not the ia64 .opd section.
-# ia64 .opd should not point to discarded sections.
-$errorcount = 0;
-foreach $object (keys(%object)) {
-        my $from;
-        open(OBJDUMP, "objdump -r $object|") || die "cannot objdump -r $object";
-        while (defined($line = <OBJDUMP>)) {
-                chomp($line);
-                if ($line =~ /RELOCATION RECORDS FOR /) {
-                        ($from = $line) =~ s/.*\[([^]]*).*/$1/;
-                }
-                if (($line =~ /\.text\.exit$/ ||
-                     $line =~ /\.exit\.text$/ ||
-                     $line =~ /\.data\.exit$/ ||
-                     $line =~ /\.exit\.data$/ ||
-                     $line =~ /\.exitcall\.exit$/) &&
-                    ($from !~ /\.text\.exit$/ &&
-                     $from !~ /\.exit\.text$/ &&
-                     $from !~ /\.data\.exit$/ &&
-                     $from !~ /\.opd$/ &&
-                     $from !~ /\.exit\.data$/ &&
-                     $from !~ /\.altinstructions$/ &&
-                     $from !~ /\.pdr$/ &&
-                     $from !~ /\.debug_.*$/ &&
-                     $from !~ /\.exitcall\.exit$/ &&
-                     $from !~ /\.eh_frame$/ &&
-                     $from !~ /\.stab$/)) {
-                        printf("Error: %s %s refers to %s\n", $object, $from, $line);
-                        $errorcount = $errorcount + 1;
-                }
-        }
-        close(OBJDUMP);
-}
-# printf("Done\n");
-
-exit(0);