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Heads-up: old elfdump will may issue incorrect version index warnings on new objects

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:51:57 -0600
From: Ali Bahrami <Ali.Bahrami at sun dot com>
To: on-all at sun dot com, onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com, on-discuss at opensolaris dot org
Subject: Heads-up: old elfdump will may issue incorrect version index warnings on new objects

Following my integration of

	6749055 ld should generate GNU style VERSYM indexes for VERNEED records
	PSARC 2008/603 ELF objects to adopt GNU-style Versym indexes

on the morning of Wednesday 9/24, the ON builds have seen some
elfdump warnings that look like:

	pvs: .dynsym: index[57]: version 8 is out of range: version
		definitions available: 0-1

These warnings can happen when you run an elfdump built prior to
the integration of 6749055 to analyze a binary that was built
after that integration. The old elfdump lacks the necessary logic
to understand the new versioning information.

It is safe to ignore these warnings. Upgrading your system
to a build from 9/25 or later will eliminate them (by BFU or
any other form of upgrade).

- Ali