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Re: how to implement --push-state/--pop-state in gold?
- From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>
- To: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>
- Cc: binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 16:56:53 -0800
- Subject: Re: how to implement --push-state/--pop-state in gold?
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> In Debian and Ubuntu I'm getting bug reports from people trying to use
> --push-state/--pop-state and then failing with gold. It would be nice to have
> these options available in gold as well. Could somebody give me pointers
> where/how to implement these?
>
> Looking at the implementation in the bfd linker, I see that push/pop only
> supports one state, and not a stack. However the documentation reads:
>
> The --push-state allows to preserve the current state of the flags
> which govern the input file handling so that they can all be restored
> with one corresponding --pop-state option.
>
> which I think documents a stack of states. Should the docs be changed?
I've just pushed a commit to implement this in gold. See PR 18989.
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18989
Thanks for expressing an interest in working on this, but it was easy
enough to implement, so I just did it.
-cary