Your change may have broken linkonce support

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Fri Jun 13 04:58:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:01:27PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> I believe your change mentioned in
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-09/msg00499.html
> 
> breaks linkonce support with debug:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7671

I doubt that changing section ordering has anything to do with this
problem.  The real problem is that we have debug info for a removed
section, with relocations that are left dangling.  The debug info
ought to be removed along with the section, preferably by using
section groups.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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