Re: [Bug ld/858] New: Linker should abort when there is reference to discarded section

[Nick Clifton]

Hi H.J.

> Gcc was broken due to a back checkin:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21070
> Linker did complain, but it kept going and generated a bad output.
> I think linker should abort when there is reference in non-debug
> section to discarded section.

This sounds reasonable.  Ideally the linker should continue to look for 
other errors so that it can report them (without reporting the same 
error message twice) and then refuse to produce an output file.

Would you like to submit a patch to do this ?

Cheers
  Nick