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> > From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu) > Date: Mon, 20 Feb 95 16:18:38 EST > > This patch is derived from some patch I got, Eric? It should work > fine. Ian, is that ok to uncomment my patch to elf.sc with this one > applied? I guess the docs should be updated to reflect the usage > of -N in ELF. > > The basic problem with this approach is that I believe it will cause > the linker to unexpectedly abort if, say, one of the input files has a > writable .text section. Try it. I know. That is why I put those comments there and why Eric commented it out at the first place. At that time, ctors/dtors were in the .text segment. > > The linker already aborts unexpectedly far too often, and I would > prefer not to introduce another possibility. If you can write the > patch in such a fashion that it can not cause a linker abort--perhaps > by making it retry the division of sections into segments if the first I think it is wrong to put the writable section into the .text section. It will break any schemes which uses the .text section like const char * const foo = "You should die if you modify it."; There must be a bug in somewhere else if ld dies. It is not my patch's fault. -- H.J. Lu NYNEX Science and Technology, Inc. hjl@nynexst.com