[PATCH] ld/ELF: explicitly place .note.gnu.property

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com
Mon Aug 18 07:59:58 GMT 2025


On 18.08.2025 09:49, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 09:20:17AM +>> While I have your attention - do you have any insight into the PPC aspect
>> mentioned in one of the remarks?
> 
> I don't know without looking at it under gdb, but at a guess a stub is
> being created with associated linker generated .eh_frame.  Later,
> since you say .eh_frame is empty, another pass of section sizing makes
> the stub no longer needed.

And whether a stub needs generating can be influenced by the placement of
.note.* sections?

Jan


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