[Bug ld/26936] ld drops relocation for .text.__x86.get_pc_thunk.bx

[matz at suse dot de]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26936

--- Comment #23 from Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de> ---
(In reply to Michael Matz from comment #22)
> (In reply to Fangrui Song from comment #20)
> > (I thought that .gnu.linkonce was deprecated almost 20 years ago and we
> > should phase out linkonce instead of adding more compatibility code...)
> 
> Deprecation != not used anymore in the wild.  In this case it's crt files
> compiled
> with options intentionally emitting linkonce, not comdat, sections, also for
> compatibility.

Or actually, assembly files that hard-coded use of linkonce section until 2020.
So, that's the timeframes we're talking about between deprecation and removal
in the wild, for toolchain purposes :-)

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