Empty section removal broke MIPS

[H. J. Lu]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:53:29AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Assemble and link this with a mips64-linux toolchain:
> 
>         .section        .sbss
>         .align  3
>         .type   bar, @object
>         .size   bar, 0
> bar:
>         .text
>         .align  2
>         .globl  __start
>         .ent    __start
>         .type   __start, @function
> __start:
>         j       $31
>         .end    __start
> 
> You'll get "nonrepresentable section on output".  We try to output the local
> symbol bar, even though we have removed its section.  This patch appears to
> work; tested mips64-linux-gnu via the binutils testsuite and by booting a
> kernel linked with the new linker (the previous linker could not build a UP
> Linux kernel).
> 

I was thinking to add a similar patch when I submitted:

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-04/msg00244.html

But I don't have a testcase. This one also failed on i386.


H.J.
---
	.section .bss
	.type   bar, @object
	.size   bar, 0
bar:
	.text
.globl _start
	.type	_start, @function
_start:
	.long 1
	.size	_start, .-_start