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Re: gold vs libc
- From: Rafael EspÃndola <rafael dot espindola at gmail dot com>
- To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
- Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:05:26 -0400
- Subject: Re: gold vs libc
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> If the .eh_frame data in crt1.o really does need to come before
> __EH_FRAME_BEGIN__, another thing you could do is simply make it so
> gold treats it as non-optimizable. Adding a null relocation to the
> first word of the section should do it; inserting a zero-length entry
> anywhere but the end would do it (if that doesn't have adverse affects
> elsewhere).
Since the problem comes from an optimizations that knows what
.eh_frame is, maybe it could learn that __EH_FRAME_BEGIN__ and
__EH_FRAME_END__ are special symbols marking the start and end of the
section?
Cheers,
Rafael