Re: PATCH: PR ld/12277: Linker error: "final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output"

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>]

On 01/02/2011 21:28, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 01/02/2011 21:18, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> It may work. But do you really need IRONLY_SUFFIX and
>>> IRONLY_SUFFIX_LEN?
>>  Perhaps not, but that's orthogonal; let's separate the two issues.  (Also,
>> it would still be nice if we could perhaps avoid changing bfd but find some
>> other way to recognize an IR dummy BFD when we see one; I'm not certain
>> whether that's possible yet though.)
>>
> 
> Not really orthogonal.  Current way for checking IR dummy BFD is
> very expensive and unnecessary. It should be fixed first.

  As an alternative to adding a flag in BFD, we could equally just keep a hash
table of IR-only BFDs in ld/plugin.c and recognise them that way instead.
What do you think?

    cheers,
      DaveK