[opensuse-mingw] RFH: Strange mingw behaviour

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Martin,

> ld still produces executables showing the same error.

> It looks like, ld is removing the .rdata + .rdata$zzz section:
> /tmp/binutils-gdb/inst/usr/local/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld: Removing unused section '.rdata' in file '/tmp/ccmBHoSC.o'
> /tmp/binutils-gdb/inst/usr/local/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld: Removing unused section '.rdata$zzz' in file '/tmp/ccmBHoSC.o'

Is this wrong ?  Ie why should these sections be retained ?  

Presumably the linker has not found any relocations that point into
these sections, so it deduces that they are not needed and discards
them.

Cheers
  Nick