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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Jozef Lawrynowicz <jozef.l@mittosystems.com>
Cc: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>,  gnu-gabi@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] SHF_GNU_RETAIN ELF Section Flag
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:09:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bli30xeg.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200918122255.oqgufi3jkc72sgem@jozef-acer-manjaro> (Jozef Lawrynowicz's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:22:55 +0100")

* Jozef Lawrynowicz:

> Yes, the use of the KEEP linker script directive is the current way to
> protect a section from garbage collection, but in my original proposal
> I outlined the benefits of using an attribute to save a section from
> garbage collection. For the attribute to work, you need a section flag
> to propagate the information to the linker.

I think you meant to write “an attribute to save a *symbol* from”.
I agree that this is a compelling case for a single-object-file
solution.

Thanks,
Florian
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-18 18:09 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
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 [this message]
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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