[PATCH] elf/x86: Issue an error on discarded output .plt section

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Mon Nov 22 00:08:56 GMT 2021


On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 07:58:11AM -0800, H.J. Lu via Binutils wrote:
> Issue an error, instead of crash, on discarded output .plt section.

Are you sure you want an error?  There may be uses of the linker where
discarding the .plt via a linker script is deliberate.  Obviously it
wouldn't be to create a runnable executable, but ld output is used in
weird ways.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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