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

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Sat Feb 5 14:21:00 GMT 2011


On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 06:20:03AM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>> -  abfd = bfd_create (concat (name, IRONLY_SUFFIX, (const char *)NULL),
>> -                  srctemplate);
>> +  abfd = bfd_create (name, srctemplate);
>
> For the sake of error messages like the one in
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-02/msg00037.html, I think it
> would be better to keep the name suffix.  The change to
> is_ir_dummy_bfd is OK to commit.
>

That is a linker error, which is intended for linker developers.
I don't think a suffix makes a big difference here.

-- 
H.J.



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