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Subject: request for enhancement in BFD and gold linkers in regards to
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HI,

I have noticed that the LLVM linker will add something to the .comment
section of binaries it produces for the version of lld used to produce an
ELF executable or shared library.

For the gold liker, I see I can do a readelf -p .note.gnu.gold-version and
get the version of gold used to make an ELF file.  I see nothing similar
for the BFD linker.

So the request for enhancement is to add something to the .comment section
as to which version of the BFD or gold linker was used to produce the ELF.

I can file a BZ if that is the preferred way of receiving a request such as
this.

If this seems unreasonable to you, that's OK by me.  I am asking under the
guise of never ventured, nothing gained.

Thanks and regards,

Tom

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