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Re: Linker is broken

From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at gcc dot gnu dot org>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 07:06:22 -0700
Subject: Re: Linker is broken
References: <20040526063332.GA22217@lucon.org> <20040526065214.GO2564@bubble.modra.org> <20040526073827.GP2564@bubble.modra.org>

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 05:08:27PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:22:14PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > Probably my SEC_EXCLUDE linker patch.  Looking..
> 
> This fixes the ld -r problem with SEC_GROUP and SEC_EXCLUDE.  I'm not
> committing it just yet because I'm worried that there might be other
> ld -r situations that are broken too.  I intend to do some digging
> into why lang_add_section ignores SEC_EXCLUDE in some cases for
> relocatable links.  It would be nicer if SEC_EXCLUDE always meant
> drop this section..
> 

We should be very careful about ld -r and SEC_EXCLUDE. Since we never
excluded SEC_EXCLUDE sections so early, we shouldn't start doing it
now.


H.J.

References:
- Linker is broken
  - From: H. J. Lu
- Re: Linker is broken
  - From: Alan Modra
- Re: Linker is broken
  - From: Alan Modra

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