The following reply was made to PR bin/33909; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: khym@azeotrope.org
To: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/33909: modload fails with "section .eh_frame ... overlaps section .data"
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 19:51:47 -0500

 On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:18:18PM +0200, Matthias Drochner wrote:
 > After some investigation I'm pretty sure the linker is
 > to blame. It does the overlap check too early. The
 > platform dependent "finish" function recalculates all
 > the sizes, so what gets checked is not the final result.
 > 
 > Could you try the appended fix?
 > (and discard the elf.c patch)
 
 Yes, this seems to fix the problem on my amd64 box. Thanks! :)