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Re: Fix garbage collection of common symbols
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 08:18:45 +1030
- Subject: Re: Fix garbage collection of common symbols
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 08:47:33AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Running lang_common before garbage collection means slightly less work
> > in garbage collection code, since common symbols should no longer
> > appear there. It does have the side effect of keeping linker script
> > symbols (at least those defined outside of sections) global too,
> > hence some testsuite churn.
> >
> > bfd/
> > PR 17165
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Didn't you mean PR ld/17615:
Oops, yes.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM