Section garbage collection problem

[H.J. Lu]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 07:42:25PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> I nned to fix it so that it looks like this:
> 
> ... -> .text.f_used -> .smp_locks.AAAA -> .text.f_used
>        .text.unused -> .smp_locks.BBBB -> .text.unused
> 
> And ld will throw .text.unused and .smp_locks.BBBB sections away.
> 
> How to achieve this?
> 

Have you tried comdat group? That is put .text.unused and
.smp_locks.BBBB in the same comdat group.  When ld discards
.text.unused, it will discard .smp_locks.BBBB automatically
together.


H.J.