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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Jozef Lawrynowicz <jozef.l@mittosystems.com>
Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,  gnu-gabi@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] SHF_GNU_RETAIN ELF Section Flag
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:11:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z8dn9xj.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200915165255.fm53szwcabht77ig@jozef-acer-manjaro> (Jozef Lawrynowicz's message of "Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:52:55 +0100")

* Jozef Lawrynowicz:

> I suppose the most compelling use cases for SHF_GNU_RETAIN are when the
> dependency cannot be expressed with references to ELF sections. You
> can't use SHF_GROUP because there is nothing to group the section with.

But if there is nothing to group the section with, why would the link
editor load the object?

That's the part I don't understand.

Thanks,
Florian
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-16 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-15 12:06 Jozef Lawrynowicz
2020-09-15 12:09 ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-15 12:31   ` Jozef Lawrynowicz
2020-09-15 12:37     ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-15 12:50       ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-09-15 12:55         ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-15 13:29           ` Jozef Lawrynowicz
2020-09-15 14:11             ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-09-15 16:52               ` Jozef Lawrynowicz
2020-09-16 12:58                 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-09-16 13:11                 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2020-09-16 13:46                   ` Michael Matz
2020-09-18 12:07                     ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-18 12:22                       ` Jozef Lawrynowicz
2020-09-18 18:09                         ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-16 14:13                   ` Jozef Lawrynowicz
2020-09-18 10:00                     ` Jozef Lawrynowicz
2020-09-18 18:11                       ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-21 12:42                         ` Michael Matz
2020-09-21 18:53                           ` Jozef Lawrynowicz

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