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Re: pr2342
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:15:52PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> I don't know what to do about pr2342. I'm inclined to revert my
> 2006-02-16 bfd/elflink.c change for 2.17, simply because I haven't
> developed a proper fix. In any case, zeroing out debug fields pointing
> into discarded sections has its own problems. eg, in some sections, a
> zero is a list terminator so poking zeros in the middle of a list isn't
> correct. We really need to edit the debug info, and fix all the refs.
>
> PR 2342
> * elflink.c (_bfd_elf_default_action_discarded): Revert 2006-02-16.
>
This patch speeds up the linker when comparing sections by caching
the result of _bfd_elf_check_kept_section:
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2006-04/msg00329.html
H.J.