PATCH: Fix linkonce support with debug

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:26:32PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:01:27PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > Alan,
> > 
> > I believe your change mentioned in
> > 
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-09/msg00499.html
> > 
> > breaks linkonce support with debug:
> > 
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7671
> 
> I doubt that changing section ordering has anything to do with this
> problem.  The real problem is that we have debug info for a removed
> section, with relocations that are left dangling.  The debug info
> ought to be removed along with the section, preferably by using
> section groups.
> 

This patch seems to work for me. We should try to preserve debug
information discarded by linkonce as much as we can. It may not be
ideal. But it is better than the current one.


H.J.

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