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Re: binutils-2.19.90 snapshot is available
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>, Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:32:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: binutils-2.19.90 snapshot is available
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Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> I'd like to see what breaks if I leave my 2009-09-28 change in
> mainline. As a very old comment in the ELF linker scripts said,
> zeroing vma for ld -r was to avoid bugs in the Solaris linker. Those
> bugs may now be fixed.
I tend to think that it is best to have zero VMAs for sections in ELF
object files--unless the linker script wants something else to happen.
Ian