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Re: PATCH: PR 797: Alignment in empty section changes the output layout
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:44:56PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:48:17PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 12:07:17PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > Can you please look at merging lang_mark_used_section and
> > > strip_unused_output_sections into strip_excluded_output_sections?
> > >
> > > I think it should be possible if you call lang_do_assignments before
> > > bfd_gc_sections to ensure that linker script symbols defined inside
> > > output sections are in the hash table.
> >
> > I am not sure it will work since the order is quite important. I
> > got many
> >
> > /export/build/gnu/binutils-debug/build-i686-linux/ld/ld-new:
> > tmpdir/ld1: Not enough room for program headers (allocated 2, need 4)
> > /export/build/gnu/binutils-debug/build-i686-linux/ld/ld-new: final link
> > failed: Bad value
>
> Did you find that you needed to run lang_size_sections early as well?
> If so, see emultempl/ppc64elf.em:ppc_before_allocation for what needs to
> be undone.
Same problem. ldemul_before_allocation is called after
map_input_to_output_sections. I guess it is hard to call
lang_do_assignments before it. Besides, it makes lang_process even
more complicated.
H.J.