Re: [PATCH] BFD: Consider any section whose name starts with ".__abs" to be absolute.

[John Darrington <john at darrington dot wattle dot id dot au>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 03:05:20PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
     On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 06:40:35PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
     > The relocatable ELF files produced by the compiler of a major semiconductor
     > manufactoror does not put absolute symbols into the *ABS* section.
     > Instead, each seems to have its own section whose name starts with .__absdata_
     > 
     > This causes ld to mislink such files.  This patch seems to fix the problem.
     > It doesn't seem like an elegant solution, but then it isn't an elegant problem...
     
     No, that isn't the right way.  Investigate elf_add_symbol_hook.
     
After quite a bit of investigation, I concluded that this hook is always ignored
unless one also defines elf_backend_relocate_sections - which would open up a huge
can of worms.

Is there another way?

J'

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