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Re: PATCH: Preserve the original p_align and p_flags if they are valid

From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
To: Ben Cheng <bccheng at google dot com>
Cc: binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 22:33:40 +0930
Subject: Re: PATCH: Preserve the original p_align and p_flags if they are valid
References: <CAPk6zkBJuUTjveE44L-+Rdp01pav5Kz-KsOT4Fv31o5Rhu=f7g@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 01:59:47PM -0700, Ben Cheng wrote:
> +          /* Preserve the alignment and flags if they are valid. The gold
> +             linker generates RW/4 for the PT_GNU_RELRO section. It is better
> +             for objcopy/strip to honor these attributes otherwise gdb will
> +             choke when doing cross-debugging. */

I don't see what this has to do with cross-debugging.  Did you mean to
say "... when using separate debug files."?

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

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