Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-06/msg00114.html
3 --- src/bfd/elflink.c.org 2004-07-05 09:11:42.920597000 -0400
4 +++ src/bfd/elflink.c 2004-07-05 09:12:59.240847000 -0400
6 return vdiff > 0 ? 1 : -1;
9 - long sdiff = h1->root.u.def.section - h2->root.u.def.section;
10 + long sdiff = h1->root.u.def.section->id - h2->root.u.def.section->id;
12 return sdiff > 0 ? 1 : -1;
18 - long sdiff = slook - h->root.u.def.section;
19 + long sdiff = slook->id - h->root.u.def.section->id;