Change in ld behavior between 2.16.1 and 2.17

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:19:05PM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
[about references to local symbols in discarded sections causing a
link error]
> Is the behavior in binutils-2.17+ correct?

Well, the linker can't guarantee to fix up the reference to point to
the proper location in the kept section.  Just considering the linker
in isolation, I think it warrants an error.  However, I thought this
gcc bug had been fixed long ago, but if this is occurring with 4.0.2,
perhaps we ought to downgrade the error to a warning again.  (I'm
assuming that the reference was from C++ code rather than assembly,
and that your .a was actually compiled with 4.0.2)

> If so, how do we work around this issue?

Pass --noinhibit-exec to the linker.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM