[PATCH] BFD: Handle copying of absolute section symbols

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:17:26AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  I have tracked it down to ignore_section_sym in bfd/elf.c that considers 
> the section the symbol is associated with not to be owned by the output 
> BFD.  Arguably the special absolute section should be treated as "owned" 
> by any BFD, because any symbols defined there are really detached from any 
> input section and the only sensible action that can be done about them 
> here is to copy them verbatim.

I agree that absolute section syms should be kept, but wonder whether
we're treating global section syms correctly.  They probably ought to
be kept too.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM