From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
To: Jozef Lawrynowicz <jozef.l@mittosystems.com>
Cc: gnu-gabi@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] SHF_GNU_RETAIN ELF Section Flag
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:42:55 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.20.2009211242330.20802@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dsr0xbo.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>
Hello,
On Fri, 18 Sep 2020, Florian Weimer via Gnu-gabi wrote:
> * Jozef Lawrynowicz:
>
> > Unless we are trying to be protective of the remaining operating
> > system-specific section flag bits, I don't really see any downside to
> > going the route of SHF_GNU_RETAIN. It is very simple, the linker
> > implementation requires only one additional line of code, and the
> > definition precisely describes how the section should be treated.
> >
> > SHF_GNU_RETAIN
> > The link editor should not garbage collect the section if it is
> > unused.
>
> I don't have any objections to this wording.
Me neither.
Ciao,
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-21 12:42 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
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 [this message]
2020-09-21 18:53 ` Jozef Lawrynowicz
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