Re: [RFA:] ld section location mishap. Attention PE, HPPA, PPC64.

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:01:43AM +0100, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> When linking with --gc-sections, I noticed the hard way that
> sections started at what seemed like a random location when
> there was no explicitly set address (--section-start) or with
> the elf.sc default for everything at 0 (TEXT_BASE_ADDRESS).  It
> was actually a left-over value in the (default) memory region
> that was used to set the section address, if certain data
> (stabs, EH) was successfully GC:ed for ELF.  The caller of
> lang_size_sections/ lang_do_assignments,
> gld${EMULATION_NAME}_finish, did not properly reset memory
> regions like lang_process does.  Actually there was some
> difficulty in doing that since the proper function wasn't
> public.
> 
> The same problem seems to exist for other callers: pe-dll.c
> (twice), emultempl/hppaelf.em and emultempl/ppc64elf.em.  I
> leave those to the respective maintainer.  (Sorry.)

Was this introduced recently?  And HPPA almost certainly has the same
problem, as that is where I originally got the code for _finish from.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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