Re: Your change may have broken linkonce support

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:26:32PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:01:27PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > Alan,
> > 
> > I believe your change mentioned in
> > 
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-09/msg00499.html
> > 
> > breaks linkonce support with debug:
> > 
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7671
> 
> I doubt that changing section ordering has anything to do with this
> problem.  The real problem is that we have debug info for a removed
> section, with relocations that are left dangling.  The debug info
> ought to be removed along with the section, preferably by using
> section groups.

Support the same section name with different groups is on my todo
list. Assuming it works, how hard to modify gcc to use it?

In the meantime, we need to support the existing gcc. I will see
what I can do.


H.J.