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

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 07:23:00 GMT 2011


On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 08:16:44AM +0200, John Marino wrote:
> At the very least, shouldn't there be a switch that could be used to
> override the current behavior and go back to the original behavior?

I'd rather not add yet another command line switch.  I suppose you
could add an internal flag that selects the old behaviour, and set the
flag just for your target in a .em file.

> What was the rationale for making this breaking change in the first place?

Avoiding useless clutter in the symbol table.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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