Re: [RFC] PR ld/13621

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On 01/30/2012 02:26 PM, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:56:49AM +1100, Richard Henderson wrote:
>> This PR is about elflint warning about symbols outside of the section
>> with which they are associated.
> 
> Huh.  So what's wrong with a symbol belonging to a section but defined
> outside of 0..section_size-1?  Particularly if it happens to be
> defined at section_size.  That's quite a natural way to mark out the
> bounds of an array.  I think this is just elflint being silly.
> 

It isn't at section_size.  The case mjw saw had the symbol at 
section_size + 8.  The test case I created has the symbol at
section_size + 2M (or whatever the x86_64 maxpagesize is).


r~