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Re: Why were those codes removed from bfd_elf_match_symbols_in_sections?


On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:08:38PM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-10/msg00407.html
> 
> removed section name comparison in
> bfd_elf_match_symbols_in_sections.  When it is called from
> match_group_member,  it has to always check symbol tables
> to compare 2 sections in section group, whose section
> names are started with .gnu.linkonce.  I'd like to put the
> .gnu.linkonce. section name check back to avoid unnecessary
> symbol table lookup.

Do we have .gnu.linkonce.* sections in section groups??  If so, why
should they be treated differently from other sections in groups?

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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