gold patch to discard .note.callgraph sections in the final link.

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 20:37:00 GMT 2011


On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> wrote:
>> As I understand it, SHF_EXCLUDE sections should not be discarded by an
>> ld -r link.  If gold is doing that today, which it probably is, that
>> should be fixed.  So, yeah, SHF_EXCLUDE sounds like a much better way to
>> deal with this.
>
> Sounds good to me. Now we either need an assembly syntax for
> SHF_EXCLUDE, or Sri will need to add his section to the list of
> special cases in special_sections[] in bfd/elf.c.
>

See:

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-05/msg00136.html

-- 
H.J.



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