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From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>,
		binutils@sourceware.org, Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>,
		vgoyal@redhat.com, drow@false.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Linker Bug or Design Intent (Absolute symbols in zero sized sections)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061011035305.GA19554@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061010231922.GK4556@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz>

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:19:22AM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Either we could add here REMOVE_EMPTY flag, or, perhaps better, not consider
> at least symbol = absolute value assignments as section relative,

Sections containing symbols really do need to stay, for --emit-relocs
and dynamic relocs.  Or at least, we need to do something to make them
work properly.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID
From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>,
		binutils@sourceware.org, Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>,
		vgoyal@redhat.com, drow@false.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Linker Bug or Design Intent (Absolute symbols in zero sized sections)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061011035305.GA19554@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20061011140800.J7_CA-nx2vsuD0yy_uRGEx9ikd3Wa1RULL847omd3_U@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061010231922.GK4556@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz>

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:19:22AM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Either we could add here REMOVE_EMPTY flag, or, perhaps better, not consider
> at least symbol = absolute value assignments as section relative,

Sections containing symbols really do need to stay, for --emit-relocs
and dynamic relocs.  Or at least, we need to do something to make them
work properly.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-11  3:52 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
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 [this message]
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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