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Re: [ARM] fix handling of "merge strings" sections

From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org
Cc: Christophe LYON <christophe dot lyon at st dot com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:16:02 +0000
Subject: Re: [ARM] fix handling of "merge strings" sections
References: <474C4470.1040903@st.com> <200711280026.49322.paul@codesourcery.com> <474D6FFE.5050101@st.com>

> The problem I have is that I have to link using GNU ld, using libraries
> compiled with RVCT-2.2 (no way to upgrade the compiler), so the only
> possible workaround I see is modifying GNU ld to handle this corner case.
> I propose to restrain further the condition to the ".conststring"
> section (which I believe is not used by GCC) to be safer.

This is still going to break valid code.  At minimum it needs to be controlled 
by a commandline option. I'm strongly opposed to breaking valid code just to 
workaround bugs in old, broken, proprietary toolchains.

Paul

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