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Re: ld: --gc-sections incompatible with --emit-relocs ?

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: David Lamy-Charrier <david dot lamy at gmail dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:17:49 +0100
Subject: Re: ld: --gc-sections incompatible with --emit-relocs ?
References: <6541ed4c0610110745v41981440w4af37d5d7bbd1bfa@mail.gmail.com> <452E0983.6090500@redhat.com> <6541ed4c0610120305w627c61betdade6ed16662bd07@mail.gmail.com>

Hi David,

In that case, it means the linker should be able to emit relocations
only for non garbage collected sections. I do not see any interest in
emitting relocations for sections that have been removed.

But the linker does not know why you want the relocations emitted. For all it knows the user may need the relocations associated with the garbage collected sections. Hence it has to play safe and keep them.

Cheers
  Nick

References:
- ld: --gc-sections incompatible with --emit-relocs ?
  - From: David Lamy-Charrier
- Re: ld: --gc-sections incompatible with --emit-relocs ?
  - From: Nick Clifton
- Re: ld: --gc-sections incompatible with --emit-relocs ?
  - From: David Lamy-Charrier

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