Removing empty sections from elf_bfd_discard_info

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:16:04PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I found one more problem with the --eh-frame-hdr patch, which is common
> to the stabs optimization code as well (where I copied it from).
>   if (sec->_cooked_size == 0)
>     sec->flags |= SEC_EXCLUDE;
> really doesn't work at all, section sizing code in ld doesn't care about
> this. Neither works setting sec->output_section to bfd_abs_section_ptr.
> 
> What do you think is best to tackle this?

I wonder if it's possible to simply use a single field for the section
size?  Why do we really need both _raw_size and _cooked_size?  Hmm, if
relaxation needs the original size, how about renaming the two fields to
"size" and "orig_size" and using "size" practically everywhere?

Alan