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

[Alan Modra]

On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 06:21:42AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> 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:
> >> - Â abfd = bfd_create (concat (name, IRONLY_SUFFIX, (const char *)NULL),
> >> - Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â srctemplate);
> >> + Â 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. Â The change to
> > is_ir_dummy_bfd is OK to commit.
> >
> 
> That is a linker error, which is intended for linker developers.

I was thinking of both bug reports and developers when I suggested
keeping the suffix.

> I don't think a suffix makes a big difference here.

True.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM