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Re: Why were those codes removed from bfd_elf_match_symbols_in_sections?
Intel C++ compiler generates section group members with .gnu.linkonce.*
section names. It is an optimization.
H.J.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:08:38PM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-10/msg00407.html
> >
> > removed section name comparison in
> > bfd_elf_match_symbols_in_sections. When it is called from
> > match_group_member, it has to always check symbol tables
> > to compare 2 sections in section group, whose section
> > names are started with .gnu.linkonce. I'd like to put the
> > .gnu.linkonce. section name check back to avoid unnecessary
> > symbol table lookup.
>
> Do we have .gnu.linkonce.* sections in section groups?? If so, why
> should they be treated differently from other sections in groups?
>
> --
> Alan Modra
> Australia Development Lab, IBM
>