Section symbols not getting created. Bug? Is attached patch correct fix?

[H.J. Lu]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:36 PM, John Marino <binutils@marino.st> wrote:
> DragonFly BSD has moved to Binutils 2.21 from 2.17 for its upcoming release.
>  During the transition an anomaly was seen, and the cause was traced back to
> missing __start_set and __end_set symbols within a generated file.  It
> appeared that lang_insert_orphan function was silently discarding the
> section label symbols due to being assigned the "dot" (the origin).
>
> It appears that exp_provide() function used there discards the symbols
> assigned "." and exp_assign() function does not.  The following patch was
> used to restore the section label generation.
>
> Did DragonFly discover a previously unknown bug?
> Is this patch the correct approach to restore these missing section labels?
>

Please try binutils in CVS to see if the problem has been fixed.  If not,
please open a bug report with a testcase.

Thanks.


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H.J.