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Re: [Patch,AVR]: Fix PR13697: Wrong symbols with --gc-sections
Tristan Gingold wrote:
> On May 30, 2012, at 6:17 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 03:37:45PM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>>> On Tue, 29 May 2012, Georg-Johann Lay wrote:
>>>> At the start of .bss the location counter is moved backwards!
>>>> I still think this is a linker bug.
>>> Well yes, but the point was that the bug is not the linker
>>> script's lack of KEEP.
>> Whether or not this is a bug depends on how you think zero size
>> discarded output sections should be treated. One extreme is to treat
>> discarded output sections as if they do not exist, so address,
>> alignment, mapping to segments, and probably other things I've
>> forgotten, are ignored and so do not affect following sections. The
>> other extreme is to just remove them from the section headers, but
>> otherwise apply all their attributes. Johann seems to want this
>> latter behaviour judging from his comment about optimisation. The
>> trouble is that whatever ld does, someone will be unhappy. For
>> instance, if we always apply alignment then you can get holes in the
>> memory image caused by unused sections. Some will view that as a
>> "bug".
upgraded to you new version, but with no avail:
The data in .bss is still inside I/O area no matter if symbols are
defined in like:
*(.data)
__foo1 = .;
__foo2 = __data_start;
PROVIDE (__foo3 = __data_start);
These symbols have the expected addresses (just as without the patch)
but the /subsequent/ data is still misplaced.
I still prefer correct code over optimized but wrong code.
Until there is a proper fix, could the KEEP solution be applied?
Other solutions like providing a linker script for each architecture
would mean to change GCC and completely restructure multilib layout.
> Why not adding a KEEP attribute on sections, ie like:
>
> .data : KEEP ...
> {
> ...
> }
Isn't this the same like the proposed KEEP(*(.data)) from above?
If not: what is the difference?
And what is the right syntax?
This always exits with a syntax error and dosc don't mention KEEP at all:
http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.22/ld/Output-Section-Attributes.html#Output-Section-Attributes
> to many everyone happy ?
>
> Tristan.