[PATCH] Drop sections with .gnu.lto_ prefix on ELF targets when relocating

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Richard,

>> Can these link-time optimizations be applied to targets other than x86 types ?
>> If so, are we going to need similar patches to other linker script templates,
>> such as:
>>
>>   armpbabi.sc
>>   elf32sh-symbian.sc
>>   elf64hppa.sc
>>   elfxtensa.sc
>>   mep.sc
> 
> It likely can be applied to all elf targets.  So yes, we probably need
> to patch all templates that also discard *(.note.GNU-stack) and
> *(.gnu_debuglink). 

Ok - I'll take care of this.

> As I can't test them I didn't patch them - to me
> it looks like pieces of that scripts should be moved to a common
> sub-template ...

Well that was the whole point of the elf.sc script, but some ports have 
chosen to go their own way...

Cheers
   Nick