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Re: gold linker: Access section start & end address w/o using a linker script
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Raphael Zulliger <zulli73 at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:51:07 -0700
- Subject: Re: gold linker: Access section start & end address w/o using a linker script
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Raphael Zulliger <zulli73@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Is there a chance to enhance gold to better support such use cases? Or is that out-of focus for gold? I'm not familiar with linking internals, but I think that providing additional start/end address symbols for section names starting with a '.' wouldn't be that tricky to be added, right?
I'm fine with it. Look for uses of is_cident in the gold source code.
Ian