[PATCH v2] Support for SHF_GNU_RETAIN ELF Section Flag

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 5:30 AM Jozef Lawrynowicz
<jozef.l@mittosystems.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 09:09:07PM +0930, Alan Modra via Binutils wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:50:33AM +0100, Jozef Lawrynowicz wrote:
> > > --- a/bfd/elflink.c
> > > +++ b/bfd/elflink.c
> > > @@ -14102,7 +14102,8 @@ bfd_elf_gc_sections (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *info)
> > >                     || (elf_section_data (o)->this_hdr.sh_type
> > >                         == SHT_FINI_ARRAY)))
> > >             || (elf_section_data (o)->this_hdr.sh_type == SHT_NOTE
> > > -               && elf_next_in_group (o) == NULL )))
> > > +               && elf_next_in_group (o) == NULL)
> > > +           || (elf_section_flags (o) & SHF_GNU_RETAIN)))
> >
> > Flag bits in SHF_MASKOS depend on OS, so this needs a test of OSABI.
> > That can be done by checking elf_tdata (sub)->has_gnu_osabi for the
> > appropriate bit.
> >
>
> Fixed the two OSABI issues in the attached patch.
>

Please rebase since this part has been changed on master branch.

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H.J.