From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Dorey To: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com Cc: Ian Lance Taylor Subject: RE: binutils patches for basic generic i960-elf Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 02:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <4110BC526A58D211B56C0000F6B9636D01F58137@ws-exch01.dev.madge.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-08/msg00098.html > My bfd config uses the generic linker - it doesn't provide an > i960-elf-specific backend relocate_section(). > In general, I recommend writing this. Without it, you won't get many > of the features of the ELF linker. Que? bfdint.texi recommends this on the grounds of efficiency and the ability to handle dynamic linking, neither of which I'm particularly bothered about for this target. Is there anything else I'm missing out on by not defining the processor-specific stuff? > I wonder if it is really correct to discard link once sections when > doing a relocateable link. Say all the .linkonce.t.baz sections are combined into .text. How is the final link then going to know which bits to discard? Or how would you handle the multiple .linkonce.t.baz sections in the relocatable output? > Incidentally, I recently fixed a long standing bug in gas to stop it > from outputting relocs against local symbols in linkonce sections. > This may work around your problem in a different way. Doh! Why didn't I ask earlier? --