[PATCH] PR ld/17975: Useless FILE entry in symbol table for linker generated symbols
H.J. Lu
hjl.tools@gmail.com
Mon Feb 16 12:58:00 GMT 2015
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> It turns out there is a complication in my proposal. When emitting a
> relocation against a local symbol, we need to know the index of the
> symbol in the output file. A similar difficulty occurs with group
> signature local symbols. Delaying output of locals means we don't
> know their indices. I think it would be possible to cope with this
> but the amount of effort isn't worth the benefit.
>
> Go ahead with your patch.
>
Done. I will update testscases for this change. Please let me
know if I miss any.
Thanks.
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H.J.
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