ld --section-start prevents merging sections

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:27:26AM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Alan Modra wrote:
>> No, it is because the elf section type is wrongly set.  --section-start
>> results in a call to init_os lacking an input section, and thus
>
> In other words, --section-start is processed
> before any oject files are read?

Yes.

> Would starting with an implicit linker script do what he wants?

Yes.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM