gold and 2.20 release

[Ian Lance Taylor]

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

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 02:31:11PM -0700, Doug Kwan (關振德) wrote:
>> I am still working on stub generation.
>
> That's what stopped this C++ newbie when working on powerpc.  I'll be
> very happy to use your work when you get it all sorted out.  :-)
>
> I'm not sure now, but I think this was the killer:
>
> // Get the input sections for linker script processing.  We leave
> // behind the Output_section_data entries.  Note that this may be
> // slightly incorrect for merge sections.  We will leave them behind,
>
> I was using Output_section_data to build my stubs.  On powerpc64 with
> large binaries the stubs need to be interspersed throughout the text
> segment, so it was decidedly unhelpful of gold to rearrange input
> sections like this.

Note that that comment only applies when you are using a linker
script.  Clearly this does have to be fixed in some way eventually.

Ian