[Bug ld/27259] ld: Support SHF_LINK_ORDER self-link

[i at maskray dot me]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27259

--- Comment #9 from Fangrui Song <i at maskray dot me> ---
(In reply to Alan Modra from comment #7)
> How exactly is the proposed SHF_LINK_ORDER trick supposed to work?  A
> reference to start_foo/stop_foo symbols from a kept section currently marks
> all input sections named foo as kept.  Are you suggesting that any section
> named foo that is SHF_LINK_ORDER with a self-link should not be marked?  But
> those foo that do not have a self-link should be marked?
> 
> Has there been any comment about this idea from the gABI group?

Started https://groups.google.com/g/generic-abi/c/LxmRJRBBbHk
"__start_<section>/__stop_<section> symbols and GC".
No response yet.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are on the CC list for the bug.