From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] bfd: prune COFF/PE section flags setting
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 15:17:27 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210304044727.GQ6042@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f78289bf-1e65-f502-ed4d-fad8fe477acd@suse.com>
On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 10:47:44AM +0100, Jan Beulich via Binutils wrote:
> It is my understanding that IMAGE_SCN_LNK_* are supposed to communicate
> information to the (static) linker, and become at best meaningless in PE
> images. I wouldn't call loaders wrong which would refuse to process
> sections with any of these bits set. While there's no replacement for
> IMAGE_SCN_LNK_COMDAT, use IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE in place of
> IMAGE_SCN_LNK_REMOVE in this case.
>
> bfd/
> 2021-02-XX Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>
> * coffcode.h (sec_to_styp_flags): Don't set IMAGE_SCN_LNK_* in
> final PE images.
OK.
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-04 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-02 9:46 [PATCH 0/6] PE/COFF linking adjustments Jan Beulich
2021-03-02 9:47 ` [PATCH 1/6] ld: don't generate base relocations in PE output for absolute symbols Jan Beulich
2021-03-02 13:30 ` Jan Beulich
2021-03-04 4:46 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-04 8:52 ` Jan Beulich
2021-03-04 13:16 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-05 12:49 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-05 13:38 ` Jan Beulich
2021-03-05 13:59 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-02 9:47 ` [PATCH 2/6] bfd: prune COFF/PE section flags setting Jan Beulich
2021-03-04 4:47 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2021-03-02 9:48 ` [PATCH 3/6] bfd: refine handling of relocations between debugging sections Jan Beulich
2021-03-04 6:10 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-04 9:00 ` Jan Beulich
2021-03-05 12:00 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-08 14:17 ` Jan Beulich
2021-03-09 2:24 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-09 7:46 ` Jan Beulich
2021-03-09 11:23 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-09 12:49 ` Jan Beulich
2021-03-02 9:49 ` [PATCH 4/6] ld: adjust ld-scripts/map-address.* Jan Beulich
2021-03-04 6:10 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-02 9:49 ` [PATCH 5/6] bfd: don't silently wrap or truncate PE image section RVAs Jan Beulich
2021-03-04 6:13 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-02 9:50 ` [PATCH 6/6] bfd: strip symbols not representable in COFF/PE symbol table Jan Beulich
2021-03-04 6:15 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-04 9:06 ` Jan Beulich
2021-03-04 13:27 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-08 15:05 ` Jan Beulich
2021-03-08 16:11 ` Jan Beulich
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