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Re: Relocation against discarded sections
Evandro Menezes <evandro@yahoo.com> writes:
>> I have been looking at a similar problem, that according to a colleague is
>> most likely the culprit. Apparently this is related to an old gcc bug that
>> used to have a workaround in ld (later removed from ld). It might still be
>> popping up perhaps (or in my case, I'm dealing with a library that I cannot
>> recompile that has been compiled using an older gcc with the bug present).
>
> Can someone please point out the previous work-around in LD? BTW,
> where are duplicate link-once sections discarded?
For ld (not gold), look for the uses of
_bfd_elf_default_action_discarded and the PRETEND flag that it
returns.
In ld (not gold), duplicate link-once sections are discarded by
_bfd_elf_section_already_linked.
Ian