binutils-2.19.90 snapshot is available

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Fri Oct 9 15:32:00 GMT 2009


Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> I'd like to see what breaks if I leave my 2009-09-28 change in
> mainline.  As a very old comment in the ELF linker scripts said,
> zeroing vma for ld -r was to avoid bugs in the Solaris linker.  Those
> bugs may now be fixed.

I tend to think that it is best to have zero VMAs for sections in ELF
object files--unless the linker script wants something else to happen.

Ian



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