PATCH: PR 797: Alignment in empty section changes the output layout
H. J. Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Tue Mar 29 07:13:00 GMT 2005
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:12:31AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:05:56PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > + So we remove the unused output sections without input sections
> > + and the empty unused output sections created by linker, if
> > + they don't have any contents. */
>
> Is it possible to do this in strip_excluded_output_sections? You won't
> have sizes set at that stage, but linker_has_input will be set, as will
> SEC_HAS_CONTENTS from link script data statements. So I think most of
But SEC_KEEP may not be set before lang_mark_used_section.
> what you're trying to achieve can be done there. SEC_LINKER_CREATED
> sections ought to be handled by the backend size_dynamic_sections
> function calling _bfd_strip_section_from_output.
Or I can check every output section and call _bfd_strip_section_from_output
at the end of bfd_elf_size_dynamic_sections so that I don't have to
change every backend. But _bfd_strip_section_from_output will check
every input section. It may be expensive. If I have to do it in
gld${EMULATION_NAME}_finish for other sections anyway, why not
to remove empty unused linker created sections in a same place.
H.J.
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