Re: Linker Bug or Design Intent (Absolute symbols in zero sized sections)

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 07:51:59AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
>
> > I think for --emit-relocs, we can keep an empty output section if its
> > address is taken.
> >
> > Of course, we need to update linker doc.
>
>
> I think we're being too specific to this case.
>
> Why are we changing what the linker script clearly defines as section
> relative symbols to absolute symbols?  This isn't the only use case
> I've encountered where that will break.  We should either discard the
> symbols, or leave the empty section.

I think retaining the zero sized section might be more logical otherwise 
a user who has specifically defined a section relative symbol in linker 
script file will be surprised to know that in some cases symbol is not 
present at all.

Thanks
Vivek