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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 12:19:58 +0000 (UTC)
From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: PR29355, ld segfaults with -r/-q and custom-named section .rela*
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Hey,

On Tue, 12 Jul 2022, Alan Modra via Binutils wrote:

> Fix that.  Note that it is arguably wrong for ld to leave the output
> .rel/.rela section type as SHT_REL/SHT_RELA when non-empty non-reloc
> sections are written to it, but I'm not going to change that since it
> might be useful to hand-craft relocs in a data section that is then
> written to a SHT_REL/SHT_RELA output section.

Much to my dismay I remember having seen exactly this in the wild, in 
recent years, but I don't remember the details anymore :-/


Ciao,
Michael.