[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.

-- 
H.J.



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