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Subject: Re: gold vs libc
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To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>, 	"GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>, Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
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On 11 September 2014 12:05, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> wrote:
>> I wouldn't mind simply making
>> __EH_FRAME_BEGIN__ and __EH_FRAME_END__ linker-defined symbols that
>> would override any definitions found in the object files.
>
> Ah, now I see that this is what Alan was referring to. What I didn't
> like about Rafael's suggestion was the idea that the linker would
> special-case the sections based on what symbols were defined in them.
> If his suggestion was simply to override any definitions with the
> linker's own definitions, then my objection was misfounded.

Yes, that is what I meant. The linker would just know
__EH_FRAME_BEGIN__ to part of the format of .eh_frame.

Cheers,
Rafael