the original script came from binutils and we simply adapted it.
Yes, but that script is meant for userspace things and isn't
the right thing for your environment.
I tried to simplify but I was unable to predict all the gcc created
sections for various gcc flags (esp -O2), so I just put all that
stuff back.
GCC won't create too many sections, just a few, unless you
do something terribly wrong.
I'll try another pass at another time, when I can test all scenarios.
Good to hear. I consider this patch reversion to be a
regression though.
There is a huge degree of risk playing here, you can imagine how
hard an issues from a dropped section would be hard to detect.
I tend to fix such issues, they're not hard to detect at all
(almost all of the time) -- dropped sections lead to hard
crashes really easily ;-)
Figuring out what is wrong is another thing -- often it is
*not* the linker script but something else btw, you just
get lucky with a certain script and a certain binutils
version but unlucky with another combo.
Perhaps ld has options to warn when badness occurs.
Yeah it can do many of those things.
Again -- do you have a testcase for the failure that made
you revert this patch?
Segher
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