Re: writing linker scripts...

[Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>]

Hi Alan,

> Nick,
> 
>   The -no-check-sections was just the ticket.
> 
>   Is there anyway to set that from inside the linker script, so that it's ALWAYS
> asserted?
> 
>   I know I could make gcc always pass -Wl,-no-check-sections to every compile, but
> I want to catch people who think that they can do 'ld' commands directly too.

I thought about this at the time I wrote my original reply, but I do
not believe that there is a way (currently) to do this.

My suggestion is that consider developing a patch either to implement
a generic mechanism for linker scripts to set command line switches,
or else a simpler mechanism for a linker script to specify that
certain sections should not be checked for overlaps.

Cheers
        Nick