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Re: gold patch to discard .note.callgraph sections in the final link.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> wrote:
>> As I understand it, SHF_EXCLUDE sections should not be discarded by an
>> ld -r link. ?If gold is doing that today, which it probably is, that
>> should be fixed. ?So, yeah, SHF_EXCLUDE sounds like a much better way to
>> deal with this.
>
> Sounds good to me. Now we either need an assembly syntax for
> SHF_EXCLUDE, or Sri will need to add his section to the list of
> special cases in special_sections[] in bfd/elf.c.
>

See:

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-05/msg00136.html

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H.J.
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