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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.

  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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