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Re: Linker Bug or Design Intent (Absolute symbols in zero sized sections)
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org, Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>, vgoyal at redhat dot com, drow at false dot org, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:23:05 +0930
- Subject: Re: Linker Bug or Design Intent (Absolute symbols in zero sized sections)
- References: <4519350D.2090208@redhat.com> <17689.23227.571136.559871@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20060926232851.GB1534@bubble.grove.modra.org> <200609281742.31472.paul@codesourcery.com> <20060928165251.GA20383@lucon.org> <20061010163423.GJ4556@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz> <20061010231922.GK4556@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz>
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:19:22AM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Either we could add here REMOVE_EMPTY flag, or, perhaps better, not consider
> at least symbol = absolute value assignments as section relative,
Sections containing symbols really do need to stay, for --emit-relocs
and dynamic relocs. Or at least, we need to do something to make them
work properly.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre