PING: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ld: Extend options for altering orphan handling behaviour.

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Mon Sep 7 15:50:00 GMT 2015


Hi Andrew,

>> The patch is approved - please apply - but ...  please could you also add an
>> entry in the ld/NEWS file mentioning the new/updated feature ?
>
> I had this in the patch:
>
>> diff --git a/ld/NEWS b/ld/NEWS
>> index f9ef88d..864384b 100644
>> --- a/ld/NEWS
>> +++ b/ld/NEWS
>> @@ -6,7 +6,11 @@
>>   * New command line option for ELF targets to compress DWARF debug
>>     sections, --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi].
>>
>> -* Add --warn-orphan option to report orphan sections.
>> +* New command line option, --orphan-handling=[place|warn|error|discard], to
>> +  adjust how orphan sections are handled.  The default is 'place' which gives
>> +  the current behaviour, 'warn' and 'error' issue a warning or error
>> +  respectively when orphan sections are found, and 'discard' will discard all
>> +  orphan sections.

Doh!

> Is this enough, or is something more required?  If more is needed I am
> happy to write it.

No - just buy me some new glasses so that I can actually read patch 
submissions properly!  Sorry about the noise.

Cheers
   Nick




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