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Re: [patch] Fix ld to match .data.rel.ro sections more carefully

From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 09:59:26 +0930
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix ld to match .data.rel.ro sections more carefully
References: <CAHACq4qAcS9SAtJAHFWQ=V9FiWGFG5gmzhW+YWMFehm-ZzjnGw@mail.gmail.com> <CAHACq4oc4n24KMZ56j38u2yr2ghXw4R0A=K3cnC7+txUziyeqg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 03:44:41PM -0700, Cary Coutant wrote:
> Unfortunately, this still doesn't handle the case where we have a
> variable named simply "ro" that happens to have a relocation. That
> will get placed into a ".data.rel.ro" section that is
> indistinguishable from a real ".data.rel.ro" section generated without
> -fdata-sections. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to handle
> this?

Call it a gcc bug?

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

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