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Re: Linker Bug or Design Intent (Absolute symbols in zero sized sections)


On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 07:51:59AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> I think for --emit-relocs, we can keep an empty output section if its
> address is taken.
> 
> Of course, we need to update linker doc.

I think we're being too specific to this case.

Why are we changing what the linker script clearly defines as section
relative symbols to absolute symbols?  This isn't the only use case
I've encountered where that will break.  We should either discard the
symbols, or leave the empty section.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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