Re: Empty section removal has messed up MIPS gdb

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

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:35:33PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> GCC used to leave a message for the debugger in the form of an empty
> section:
> 
>       /* Generate a special section to describe the ABI switches used to
>          produce the resultant binary.  This used to be done by the assembler
>          setting bits in the ELF header's flags field, but we have run out of
>          bits.  GDB needs this information in order to be able to correctly
>          debug these binaries.  See the function mips_gdbarch_init() in
>          gdb/mips-tdep.c.  This is unnecessary for the IRIX 5/6 ABIs and
>          causes unnecessary IRIX 6 ld warnings.  */
> 
> The emitted bits were simply:
> 
> 	.section .mdebug.abi64
> 	.previous
> 
> The sections are now stripped.  I don't want to put contents in them and
> waste object file space unless it's absolutely necessary.  How should I
> cajole ld into leaving them?
> 

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H.J.