RE: [Patch, LD]Fix GDB crash caused by discarding the grouped debug sections

["Terry Guo" <terry dot guo at arm dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Modra [mailto:amodra@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 8:12 PM
> To: Terry Guo
> Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: [Patch, LD]Fix GDB crash caused by discarding the grouped
> debug sections
> 
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 02:49:44PM +0800, Terry Guo wrote:
> > Thanks for comments. Then is it a proper solution if I update the
> > patch to keep other sections in same group?
> 
> Yes, I think it would be OK to keep a group containing just debug sections
or
> the other special sections we currently mark.
> 

Patch is updated per your suggestion and tested with Binutils regression. No
regression. Is this one OK?

BR,
Terry

2015-01-04  Terry Guo  <terry.guo@arm.com>

           * bfd/elf-bfd.h (_bfd_elf_gc_mark_debug_special_section_group):
Declare new function.
           * bfd/elflink.c (_bfd_elf_gc_mark_debug_special_section_group):
New function.
              (_bfd_elf_gc_mark_extra_sections): Handle section group.

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