From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: COMDAT group names become anonymouse local symbols
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBFCF29.5070602@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinSDNLTW7MS0YKagBjEtuw7VqoVQomCWDtgr7eO@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/20/2010 10:19 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> The gas behaviour makes sense in that it gives you a slightly smaller
>>> object file, although that is partially offset by the need for the
>>> linker to do extra work to dig up the section name from .shstrtab rather
>>> than the symbol name from .strtab. But I agree that it does not meet
>>> the letter of the ELF standard.
>>
>> So, would a patch to make GAS create a local symbol for the group name
>> be acceptable? Or would it be rejected on the grounds that it makes
>> object files bigger?
> Can't we use ".group" as section name for all group sections?
Yes, but that by itself doesn't do anything to solve the problem. The
issue is whether the group signature symbol must have a name, not what
the name on the section is.
--
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery
mark@codesourcery.com
(650) 331-3385 x713
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 20:08 Mark Mitchell
2010-10-20 18:05 ` Cary Coutant
2010-10-20 18:19 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 6:12 ` Cary Coutant
2010-10-21 0:18 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-21 0:31 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 1:04 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-10-21 4:41 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 5:19 ` H.J. Lu
2010-10-21 5:27 ` Mark Mitchell [this message]
2010-10-21 5:41 ` H.J. Lu
2010-10-21 5:42 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 6:24 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-21 16:41 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 18:50 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-10-21 20:22 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 22:19 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-21 22:41 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 23:11 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-22 3:23 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-22 4:33 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-22 6:10 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-22 7:16 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-22 15:34 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-23 8:16 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-23 18:05 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-24 1:15 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2010-10-24 1:43 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-24 3:50 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2010-10-24 4:34 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-25 11:45 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2010-10-25 12:39 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-25 15:22 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-26 3:45 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-26 15:48 ` Dave Korn
2010-10-26 15:49 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-26 15:59 ` Dave Korn
2010-10-26 16:12 ` Dave Korn
2010-10-21 2:12 ` Alan Modra
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