Sun/Oracle C++ compiler patch

[Tristan Gingold]

On Feb 25, 2011, at 1:17 AM, Chris Quenelle wrote:

> (ignore the last copy of this email, it had a terrible subject line)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> When the Sun/Oracle C++ compiler was ported to Linux, we started
> bundling a patched version of gnu ld to get the necessary treatment
> for our exception range sections.  I don't believe anyone has tried to
> offer this patch upstream, and it would really help us out if we could
> use the system linker when running on Linux.  I've included the
> contents of the patch at the end of this email.

Just a suggestion: can you add a comment just before to explain that this is for Sun/Oracle C++ compiler ?  This is not
obvious from the section name.

Is the content of this section documented somewhere ?

Tristan.