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Re: release soonish

From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:23:23 -0800
Subject: Re: release soonish

> I don't fully understand why/what is happening, but I filed a bug report
> against binutils ld with a reproducer that triggers the same thing with
> gcc < 4.7. http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13621

The linker behavior is certainly buggy.  But I also don't see off hand why
__TMC_END__ needs to be global at all.  If it were just a local symbol like
__TMC_LIST__ is, then it would just be swallowed entirely when the section
is empty.


Thanks,
Roland

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