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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
>


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