binutils is broken on ELF/mips (Re: binutils is broken on Linux/alpha)

[Geoff Keating]

> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:25:02 +0930
> From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
> Cc: hjl@lucon.org, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
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> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:44:52PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > 
> > Again, this is better fixed in GCC than in binutils.
> 
> True, but unless the gcc unwind mechanism is changed to somehow avoid
> the problem with link-once sections, we will still need some extra
> support in binutils.  The idea I mentioned regarding putting the
> .eh_frame info in link-once sections has one thing missing:  We need
> some means of grouping sections together, so that if one section is
> kept, all the sections in the group are kept.

That is the fix I was referring to: arrange the gcc unwind mechanism
so that link-once sections are used properly.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>