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Re: Your change may have broken linkonce support
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 03:21:24PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:20:47PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > Support the same section name with different groups is on my todo
> > list. Assuming it works, how hard to modify gcc to use it?
>
> The problem I ran into a year or so ago when I tried to use section
> groups for eh_frame was that in breaking up the section you ended up
> with "sym1 - sym2" expressions with the symbols in different sections.
> Worse, sym1 was in the current section and sym2 in another section,
> so you needed some sort of negative pcrel reloc.
>
That seems a nasty problem. I will see what I can modify bfd to support
linkonce debug in the meantime.
H.J.