From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
Cc: gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: i386-pe named linkonce section switching problem
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 15:29:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.SUN.3.93.980905194658.13490A-100000@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu>
References: <199809052302.TAA24819@subrogation.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998/msg00217.html

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> 
> The appended patch appears to fix this problems.
> 

[ patch deleted ]

I tried that already, and the example code simply crashes in etext(). I'm
not sure where to look at this point. Here's what I've found (after
applying your patch):
  
case 1: jump table in linkonce section. Doesn't work.
  
  .section        .text$func__Fc,"x"
      .linkonce discard
      .align 4
  .globl _func__Fc
      .#define    _func__Fc;      .scl    2;      .type   32;     .endef
  _func__Fc:
  
  # ...
  .text		# making it .section rdata doesn't help either.
  # ...
  .section        .text$func__Fc,"x"
  
  The section is marked linkonce correctly, but crash at etext() at
  program startup.

case 2: other sections such .drectve in the middle does work. 

Obviously, section switching while in a named section does work for
innocuous ones like .drectve, but not for anything like .text/.data/etc.

Any ideas where to look?

Regards,
Mumit