From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>
Cc: hjl@lucon.org, vgoyal@redhat.com, drow@false.org,
binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Linker Bug or Design Intent (Absolute symbols in zero sized sections)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060926232851.GB1534@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17689.23227.571136.559871@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 12:52:11PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "H" == H J Lu <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
>
> H> Convert section relative symbol to absolute shouldn't be a problem
> H> in most cases. If we know it may be a problem at link time, we can
> H> keep it section relative.
>
> But what benefit is there in converting symbols from relative to
> absolute? It seems more logical to leave them alone, always.
We are talking about the case where the section defining the symbol
is removed from the output.
--
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-26 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-26 14:33 Vivek Goyal
2006-09-26 14:49 ` H. J. Lu
2006-09-26 14:52 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-09-26 15:13 ` H. J. Lu
2006-09-26 15:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-26 15:54 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-09-26 16:21 ` H. J. Lu
2006-09-26 16:30 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-09-26 16:44 ` H. J. Lu
2006-09-26 16:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-09-26 17:01 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-26 23:50 ` Alan Modra
2006-09-27 1:51 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-27 3:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-26 17:48 ` Paul Koning
2006-09-26 23:53 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2006-09-28 17:01 ` Paul Brook
2006-09-28 17:05 ` Paul Brook
2006-09-28 18:37 ` H. J. Lu
2006-09-28 18:53 ` H. J. Lu
2006-10-10 16:41 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-10-10 16:51 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-10-11 3:52 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-10-11 7:12 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-10-11 8:04 ` Alan Modra
2006-10-11 14:08 ` Alan Modra
2006-10-11 14:19 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-10-11 14:45 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-10-12 10:18 ` Alan Modra
2006-10-12 14:37 ` Alan Modra
2006-10-13 10:58 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-10-13 11:10 ` Alan Modra
2006-10-13 11:26 ` Alan Modra
2006-10-17 16:02 ` Dynamic section symbols, ignored output sections Alan Modra
2006-10-19 14:55 ` ligang
2006-10-22 0:25 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-10-23 14:13 ` Alan Modra
2006-09-29 6:42 ` Linker Bug or Design Intent (Absolute symbols in zero sized sections) Alan Modra
2006-09-29 8:06 ` Alan Modra
2006-09-26 16:14 ` H. J. Lu
2006-09-26 16:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-09-26 17:57 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-09-26 20:23 ` H. J. Lu
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