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Re: linker behaviour for sections having flags SHF_MERGE/SHF_STRINGS
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Shankar Kalpathi Easwaran
<shankarke@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I dont know how critical are the linker and the gold bugs, think they are
> not so critical.
I think the only gold bug is a slightly misleading error message.
Definitely not critical.
> 1) How is sh_entsize relevant when the section flags have SHF_STRINGS set ?
sh_entsize tells the linker the size of a character in a string. This
permits the linker to correctly handle strings represented in, e.g.,
UTF-16 or UCS-2.
Ian