Re: Does/can ld edit .stab sections?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+ at andrew dot cmu dot edu>]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:17:10AM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:21:21AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:59:47AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > 
> > > Or perhaps to generate separate stab sections for each original section
> > > and merge them at link time?
> > 
> > Yes, that is exactly what is needed.  Initial support for section groups
> > has already been added to binutils, but gcc needs to be taught how to
> > tell the linker about groups.  I will look into it sometime...
> 
> Are you sure separate .stab.*, .eh_frame.*, .dwarf_*.* etc. sections
> are the best way to do this?
> Then we're quickly approaching the 64K section limit, if for every separate
> text section you need 10 other ones.
> 
> For .stab, ld already revamps that section, so I don't see why it cannot
> handle this too (simply discard stabs which are against discarded sections).

I'm going to try to come up with a patch for this in the next couple
days, then.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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