Re: Linker Bug or Design Intent (Absolute symbols in zero sized sections)

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat dot com>]

H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:58:10AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 07:51:59AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> >
> > > I think for --emit-relocs, we can keep an empty output section if its
> > > address is taken.
> > >
> > > Of course, we need to update linker doc.
> >
> > I think we're being too specific to this case.
> >
> > Why are we changing what the linker script clearly defines as section
> > relative symbols to absolute symbols?  This isn't the only use case
> > I've encountered where that will break.  We should either discard the
>
>
> Please open a bug report with a testcase for each different issue.

Opened a bug numbered 3267 for this issue at http://sourceware.org/bugzilla

-Vivek