Purpose of NULL SHN_ABS symbols for version script nodes?

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 08:43:42PM +0300, Raul Tambre wrote:
> LLD side is unwilling to implement this feature due to lack of real-world
> use and its purpose having to be guessed at even by a binutils maintainer.

Lack of real world use is an assertion that is yet to be proven true.

> Would there be willingness to accept a patch deprecating/removing this behaviour?

At some time in the future perhaps.  I'm not going to drop them just
now.  I'm perfectly happy for lld to find out whether they are really
needed..

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM