[David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>] problem with unwind info for .init/.fini sections

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Tue Mar 12 22:42:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 04:29:07PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:32:10PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:34:10PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > 	* elflink.h (NAME(bfd_elf,size_dynamic_sections)): Use ELF section
> > > 	types instead of section names to determine whether init/fini array
> > > 	dynamic tags are needed.
> > 
> > I don't like this change. Those .xxxx_array sections are special
> > sections in the gABI. The linker script depends on that. Unless you
> > also change the linker script, it doesn't make much senses to use
> > section types here.
> 
> It is one less place where we do magic things depending on section
> name.

It doesn't buy you anything. The only thing it does is to scan all
sections in input files for no good reason. However, I don't mind
checking the section type of the output section. But I don't think it
works.

BTW, those sections are magic in the gABI.


H.J.



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