mapping of stripped section syms

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 09:42:00 GMT 2012


On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:32:04AM +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> 
> On Mar 23, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
> 
> > FDPR sometimes gets confused due to GNU ld's stripping of empty output
> > sections.
> 
> Are you talking about 'Feedback Directed Program Restructuring' tool from IBM ?

Yes.  https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/projects/systems/cot/fdpr/

> (Didn't know it was available on more platforms than AIX).

Linux powerpc too.  It's the reason why the binutils powerpc backend
fusses about making -q output match tls optimisation, something
most other backends don't bother doing.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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