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Re: [RFA:] Ignore --gc-sections if non-ELF objects are involved

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com>
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:41:15 +1030
Subject: Re: [RFA:] Ignore --gc-sections if non-ELF objects are involved
References: <20020326115426.GD18838@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <200203261412.PAA11986@ignucius.axis.se>

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 03:12:49PM +0100, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> 
> > and I think a variation of your patch
> > that warns on finding non-ELF input BFDs _with relocs_, but doesn't
> > stop GC, is the best solution.
> 
> I'm hesitant to warn and still proceed in that situation; it's
> almost certain to fail.  Would you accept warning and ignoring
> GC in that case, like this?

Well, really I don't care that much either way.  We're talking about
a corner case after all.  Heh, why don't you ask rth?  It's his code
we're messing with.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

References:
- Re: [RFA:] Ignore --gc-sections if non-ELF objects are involved
  - From: Alan Modra
- Re: [RFA:] Ignore --gc-sections if non-ELF objects are involved
  - From: Hans-Peter Nilsson

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