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

[nickc at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com  2005-04-22 14:52 
-------
Subject: Re:  New: Linker should abort when there is reference
 to     discarded section

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




-- 


http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=858

------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.