Why were those codes removed from bfd_elf_match_symbols_in_sections?

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 21:09:00 GMT 2008


Hi Alan,

Your patch

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-10/msg00407.html

removed section name comparison in
bfd_elf_match_symbols_in_sections.  When it is called from
match_group_member,  it has to always check symbol tables
to compare 2 sections in section group, whose section
names are started with .gnu.linkonce.  I'd like to put the
.gnu.linkonce. section name check back to avoid unnecessary
symbol table lookup.

Thanks.

H.J.



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