PATCH for i386: --no-copy-relocs

Ian Lance Taylor ian@zembu.com
Wed Jun 20 00:18:00 GMT 2001


"Jose Luu" <jluu@mainsoft.com> writes:

> >Is that for symbols in the .rodata (.text?) section? Can we tell gcc
> >to put such symbols in the .data section?  The SVR4 mips ABI has the
> >similar issue.
> >
> >
> Ian and H.J.
> 
> I did not see the need for symbols in the .text or .rodata sections so I
> restricted the patch to the relocs in sections where (sec->flags &
> SEC_ALLOC) !=0, this eliminates the .rodata and .text, this is similar to
> what is done in the case where a shared library is produced.

I don't understand what you are saying here.  SEC_ALLOC is certainly
set for the .text section.

Ian



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