Re: Test case which displays problem found in libstdc++-v3 effort

[Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>]

On 19 Jun 2000, Jason Merrill wrote:

> >>>>> Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au> writes:
> 
>  > It's a linker script bug.  The linker needs to be told to keep the
>  > .eh_frame contents.  Lack of any reference to symbols defined in a
>  > section normally causes --gc-sections to discard the section.
> 
> I would think that the reference to __EH_FRAME_BEGIN__ from
> __do_global_ctors would satisfy the linker.  Why doesn't it?

Because there doesn't seem to be any such reference.  __main.o doesn't
have much in it on i586-linux.  Everything is #ifdef'd out due to
HAS_INIT_SECTION and OBJECT_FORMAT_ELF being defined.

objdump --headers __main.o 

__main.o:     file format elf32-i386

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .text         00000000  00000000  00000000  00000034  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  1 .data         00000000  00000000  00000000  00000034  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  2 .bss          00000000  00000000  00000000  00000034  2**2
                  ALLOC
  3 .note         00000014  00000000  00000000  00000034  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY
  4 .stab         00000ee8  00000000  00000000  00000048  2**2
                  CONTENTS, RELOC, READONLY, DEBUGGING
  5 .stabstr      00002f51  00000000  00000000  00000f30  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
  6 .comment      00000029  00000000  00000000  00003e81  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY


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