Jan Beulich jbeulich@novell.com
Tue Nov 21 09:04:00 GMT 2006

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>>> Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> 21.11.06 00:03 >>>
>On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 10:38:01AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> ld-elf/warn2 uses symbol2w.s, which contains
>> 
>>         .section        .gnu.warning,"a",%progbits
>> 	.global Foo
>>         .type   Foo, %object
>>         .size   Foo, 20
>> Foo:
>>         .string "function 'Foo' used"
>> 
>> As a result, warn2.d expects Foo to end up in .text, but to me placement
>> of a symbol in a to be discarded section seems ill in the first place.
>
>Well, yes, no one would write real code like this.  Typically, you'd
>put a .gnu.warning section (with no symbols) in an object file
>containing code/data for one function.
>
>> I'd
>> therefore like to move Foo into .data, and additionally relax warn2.d to
>> not expect a specific section number.
>
>No, leaving Foo there helps us test that symbols defined in discarded
>sections are handled properly.

So - just relax the expectation to no longer be a hard 1?

Jan

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