PATCH: PR ld/12277: Linker error: "final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output"

[H.J. Lu]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/02/2011 21:28, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 01/02/2011 21:18, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>> It may work. But do you really need IRONLY_SUFFIX and
>>>> IRONLY_SUFFIX_LEN?
>>>  Perhaps not, but that's orthogonal; let's separate the two issues.  (Also,
>>> it would still be nice if we could perhaps avoid changing bfd but find some
>>> other way to recognize an IR dummy BFD when we see one; I'm not certain
>>> whether that's possible yet though.)
>>>
>>
>> Not really orthogonal.  Current way for checking IR dummy BFD is
>> very expensive and unnecessary. It should be fixed first.
>
>  As an alternative to adding a flag in BFD, we could equally just keep a hash
> table of IR-only BFDs in ld/plugin.c and recognise them that way instead.
> What do you think?
>

It is still expensive. We should use a bit in BFD, which also makes
that info available to BFD.

-- 
H.J.