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Re: symbols defined in discarded sections
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 22 Dec 2002 01:05:38 -0200
- Subject: Re: symbols defined in discarded sections
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <20021219230207.GS944@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>
On Dec 19, 2002, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Currently, ld emits global symbols defined in discarded sections,
> turning them into absolute syms. I think this is the wrong thing
> to do, and that such symbols should be stripped. Opinions?
As long as it doesn't break relocations in debugging sections to
discarded sections, I'm all for it.
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