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Re: strip vs group signature symbols

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:24:41AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:46:47AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:38:00AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > Makes strip --strip-unneeded on relocatable object files keep group
> > > signature symbols.
> > > 
> > > 	PR 3182
> > > 	* objcopy.c (copy_object): Load symbols earlier.
> > > 	(setup_section): Mark group signature symbols with BSF_KEEP.
> > > 
> > 
> > I think we should add a testcase with the patch.
> 
> Would you like to add your testcase from the PR?  BTW, your loadaddr tests

I will do.

> need some tweaking, eg. see results for s390-linux build with 32-bit BFD.
> 

It is caused by md_section_align in s390. See:

http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3207

Does s390 really need to pad a section?


H.J.
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