From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11358 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2013 17:51:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 11348 invoked by uid 89); 22 Apr 2013 17:51:09 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mail-ob0-f179.google.com (HELO mail-ob0-f179.google.com) (209.85.214.179) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:51:08 +0000 Received: by mail-ob0-f179.google.com with SMTP id x4so3821136obh.38 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:51:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=nFTDeRZXIoCdTKvWQQEsLpx57B4VhXROCEhX8L8JsJY=; b=WXZktRgqRoMeZLOCLwSYmBSjiF7JBpyLAdFYT5sh3Wxbr1CsW07cnnSsclTl2Ztm6t 3HaM8MRuPzbUlPHuqUhPTto5/qxhtQP35qTJv7DBI39ZiTo5RUAp4saMaV9zZnSQYbb5 etye3m3Cj+JjN0W8miJeBWC11o2WO9kqFrufIuUyjqydjl94tuLCVKscb4QmJS8eo9TP R7yUozetBgJSANdjwg9zcK/sWwnftpfh6uy+1TJ4AkDG4/S+oIC0vkThLpdtMDTxJMG5 yBd32qbyV5DyQ97yNeeIVlcg5XojR0g4lJrrO1ZIWIBGYAEBXy2eb7IvdM2ch02aUzp9 EY8g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.57.35 with SMTP id f3mr12055928oeq.33.1366653067313; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:51:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.60.50.40 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:51:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <0263B7F5-194E-42D0-A8BB-608F0593ED61@gmail.com> References: <10A84606-654D-4FBC-A66D-40BA39916061@gmail.com> <0263B7F5-194E-42D0-A8BB-608F0593ED61@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:51:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: gold linker: Access section start & end address w/o using a linker script From: Ian Lance Taylor To: Raphael Zulliger Cc: "binutils@sourceware.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnwIcb27CfnV4P+S3H5A5lZmUPTai00UL398lCx9h33PbDHASzPMTbuKqxbfJmu2IvqXk2nFrbCfTinWaLKkv2kcTTIov0QXgsUCpm0oiWg/fEhgXbaOX+2Y2TMVDvZCi4NKUtzyvbCozQ71TP7rifcnx1msvZb8+20W40ru0FOCH5dMf8qie7D5a2aye+4E00F8e8I X-SW-Source: 2013-04/txt/msg00234.txt.bz2 On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Raphael Zulliger wrote: > > Is there a chance to enhance gold to better support such use cases? Or is= that out-of focus for gold? I'm not familiar with linking internals, but I= think that providing additional start/end address symbols for section name= s starting with a '.' wouldn't be that tricky to be added, right? I'm fine with it. Look for uses of is_cident in the gold source code. Ian