From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13052 invoked by alias); 26 Sep 2006 16:22:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 13002 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Sep 2006 16:22:19 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:22:15 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8QGMDE5027134; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:22:13 -0400 Received: from mail.boston.redhat.com (mail.boston.redhat.com [172.16.76.12]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8QGMDxY015064; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:22:13 -0400 Received: from [172.16.83.101] (dhcp83-101.boston.redhat.com [172.16.83.101]) by mail.boston.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8QGMDX2031126; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:22:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4519520D.3070806@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:40:00 -0000 From: Vivek Goyal Reply-To: vgoyal@redhat.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. J. Lu" CC: binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Linker Bug or Design Intent (Absolute symbols in zero sized sections) References: <4519350D.2090208@redhat.com> <20060926142709.GA8543@lucon.org> <4519387D.3080305@redhat.com> <20060926145159.GA8668@lucon.org> <20060926145810.GA14821@nevyn.them.org> <20060926155402.GA9105@lucon.org> In-Reply-To: <20060926155402.GA9105@lucon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-09/txt/msg00319.txt.bz2 H. J. Lu wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:58:10AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >>On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 07:51:59AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote: >> >>>I think for --emit-relocs, we can keep an empty output section if its >>>address is taken. >>> >>>Of course, we need to update linker doc. >> >>I think we're being too specific to this case. >> >>Why are we changing what the linker script clearly defines as section >>relative symbols to absolute symbols? This isn't the only use case >>I've encountered where that will break. We should either discard the > > > Please open a bug report with a testcase for each different issue. Thanks. I will open the bug report right away. Thanks Vivek