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Re: Linker Bug or Design Intent (Absolute symbols in zero sized sections)


On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 12:52:11PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "H" == H J Lu <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> 
>  H> Convert section relative symbol to absolute shouldn't be a problem
>  H> in most cases. If we know it may be a problem at link time, we can
>  H> keep it section relative.
> 
> But what benefit is there in converting symbols from relative to
> absolute?  It seems more logical to leave them alone, always.

We are talking about the case where the section defining the symbol
is removed from the output.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre


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