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Subject: Re: VMA section overlap warnings for overlays
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>, 	David Stubbs <stubbs@icerasemi.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 06:53:39AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com> wrot=
e:
>> > The sh_offset of .branch_lt no longer agrees with sh_addr modulo segme=
nt
>> > alignment.
>>
>> What is an empty section used for?
>
> This particular section stores addresses used by long branch stubs.
> I'd be happier if it was eliminated when no long branch stubs were
> needed, but that turns out to be difficult. =A0So unfortunately ppc64
> binaries get these zero sized sections.
>

Is that a problem when it isn't included in any segment by
objcopy/strip?


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