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Re: ld -r frustration

From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:32:53 -0700
Subject: Re: ld -r frustration
References: <20040727151103.GB15182@bubble.modra.org> <1090947454.31643.9.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com>

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:57:34PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 
> Well on ELF you can just write out every section unchanged in a single
> object file (ELF is quite happy to have multiple sections with the same
> name, it's only GAS that doesn't know how to do this).  IIRC the only
> thing that needs merging is the symbol table.

You can have multiple sections with the same name if you use section
group. I hope I have fixed all the section group bugs in the current
binutils in CVS.

H.J.

References:
- ld -r frustration
  - From: Alan Modra
- Re: ld -r frustration
  - From: Richard Earnshaw

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