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Re: Retry powerpc gold stub grouping when groups prove too large
- From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
- To: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:26:35 -0800
- Subject: Re: Retry powerpc gold stub grouping when groups prove too large
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>> Another idea would be to automatically reduce the stub group size and
>> run another relaxation pass.
>
> Complicated somewhat by the fact that once input sections have been
> converted to relaxed sections (to hold stubs), we lack infrastructure
> to revert them back to plain input sections.
"Somewhat" -- nice understatement. Thanks for doing this!
-cary