[PATCH/ARM] Enable Gold to set EF_ARM_HASENTRY attribute on ARM

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Thu Feb 13 10:15:00 GMT 2014


On 13/02/14 05:13, Yury Gribov wrote:
> Cary Coutant wrote:
>> As Joseph said, this flag isn't defined by the ARM EABI, so I don't
>> think we should bother with it.
>
> Ok, makes sense. Should I close PR as WONTFIX?
>

INVALID would be the correct state.  The flag isn't defined.

Instead, I think we need a separate bug to remove it's use in the BFD 
linker when generating EABI conformant images.

R.

>> (Is there a reason other than
>> consistency with Gnu ld that you filed the bug?)
>
> Our local scripts use this flag to check validity of executable and they
> borked when we tried switching to Gold.
> Now if this flag is unsupported, we'd probably rather fix our scripts.
>
> -Y
>




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