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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ld: Keep PREINIT_ARRAY/INIT_ARRAY/FINI_ARRAY sections for -r --gc-section
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 08:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180112080959.GI20622@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180111165714.GA7379@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 08:57:14AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> We must keep all PREINIT_ARRAY, INIT_ARRAY as well as FINI_ARRAY sections
> for ld -r --gc-section.
> 
> OK for master?
> 
> H.J.
> ---
> bfd/
> 
> 	PR ld/22677
> 	* elflink.c (bfd_elf_gc_sections): Keep all PREINIT_ARRAY,
> 	INIT_ARRAY as well as FINI_ARRAY sections for ld -r --gc-section.

I'm wondering why we need this part

> +  ${RELOCATING+${PREINIT_ARRAY}}
>    ${RELOCATING+${INIT_ARRAY}}
>    ${RELOCATING+${FINI_ARRAY}}

given that if these were not wrapped in ${RELOCATING+} it seems like
KEEP in the script ought to be good enough?

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-12  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-11 16:57 H.J. Lu
2018-01-12  8:10 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2018-01-12 10:29   ` Nick Clifton
2018-01-12 10:45     ` Alan Modra

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