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Re: static link with gold + gc-sections does not flush stdout buffer to file.
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Sriraman Tallam <tmsriram at google dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 13:33:59 +1030
- Subject: Re: static link with gold + gc-sections does not flush stdout buffer to file.
- References: <863b0cbf1001041702w23a587cdubf8e6d7fecfcb20b@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:02:03PM -0800, Sriraman Tallam wrote:
> Out of these, removing __libc_atexit is responsible for this behaviour
> as it registers __IO_cleanup which flushes the buffer. Also, to me, it
> looks like the other symbols with __libc prefix are also important.
>
> Here is a patch to make gc-sections not delete sections prefixed with
> __libc and this fixes the problem.
I think this is simply a glibc bug, and that we shouldn't do anything
special with __libc* sections.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM