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Re: PATCH: Fix linkonce for ELF/PPC.
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 09:42:23AM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
>
> > Looking at .rela.eh_frame in the bad libstdc++, I see a bunch of
> > RELATIVE relocs, none of which should cause problems, ADDR32 relocs
> > against __gxx_personality_v0, again no problem, and some NONE relocs.
> > These are the infamous relocs against removed linkonce sections.
>
> Why can't we just remove those relocs? Why do we convert them into
> NONE relocs?
Because space for the relocs in the output section has already been
allocated.