Re: gold patch: Don't try to merge empty input sections

[Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:12:00AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> When gold saw an empty merge input section it would add it to the
>> merge data for the output section.  Unfortunately an empty input
>> section would have no maps, and this would cause a crash in
>> Output_section::starting_output_address looking for the position of
>> the input section in the output section.  There is nothing to merge
>> for an empty merge input section, so I patched the code to simply
>> handle it as an ordinary input section.  I committed this patch.
>
> Is their alignment relevant?

It will be taken into account, as it will be handled as an ordinary
input section.

Ian