[RFA:] test-case for relocs for linkonce-excluded sections don't become zero, causing g++ EH failure

Hans-Peter Nilsson hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com
Sat Sep 29 05:52:00 GMT 2001


> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:34:16 +0930
> From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>

> On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 07:57:37PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > I'll take a look at it - we might be able to get rid of kept_section
> > as that was something I added to struct sec when writing this
> > bit of code.
> 
> Yes, we can.  The test in cofflink.c is redundant, as all removed
> link-once sections have their output_section set to bfd_abs_section.
> All the other code accessing kept_section was involved in fudging
> removed section sym values.
> 
> bfd/ChangeLog [...]

Great! Thanks!

Now I just have to bother Phil Blundell for a 2.11.3 with this
or GeoffK:s patch. ;-)

Should I commit the test-case (except without the xfail -- it
works now)?

brgds, H-P



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