[PATCH] PR ld/17975: Useless FILE entry in symbol table for linker generated symbols

[H.J. Lu]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:58 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

I checked in this.


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H.J.
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