binutils-gdb/ld
Jan Beulich b994624fa5 RISC-V: process rs_align_code also when relaxing
riscv_handle_align() runs after all input was processed. Whether
relaxation is enabled for any particular piece of code is not recorded
anywhere. (This issue was even "worked around" in a gas testcase, which
is adjusted accordingly.) Furthermore, as demonstrated by an ld
testcase, tail padding in an object file's executable sections depended
on whether relaxation was enabled at the end of assembly: NOPs were
emitted only when relaxation was off; zeroes were emitted with
relaxation enabled. (It could probably be either way, but it should be
independent of relaxation state at the end of assembly. Except of course
write.c, in a comment ahead of #define-ing SUB_SEGMENT_ALIGN(),
explicitly says "proper nop-filling".)

While re-indenting, drop the "odd_padding" variable. It's used exactly
once, and having the actual expression right in the if() is imo helping
readers to understand what the intentions are.

While touching the ld testcase, also tighten the expectations for the
addresses of the two symbols: The last two digits have to have fixed
values.
2024-08-23 09:22:30 +02:00
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emulparams LoongArch: Add DT_RELR support 2024-07-05 12:11:11 +08:00
emultempl LoongArch: Add support for OUTPUT_FORMAT("binary") 2024-08-05 17:38:49 +08:00
po Updated translations for the bfd, binutils, gas, ld and opcodes directories 2024-07-29 11:57:25 +01:00
scripttempl Ensure that the text segment is aligned on disk when using --rosegment. 2024-06-18 09:15:04 +01:00
testsuite RISC-V: process rs_align_code also when relaxing 2024-08-23 09:22:30 +02:00
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config.in Regenerate configure files in ld sub-directory 2024-06-14 12:49:49 +01:00
configure Change version to 2.43.50 2024-07-20 13:16:33 +01:00
configure.ac Add --rosegment option to BFD linker to stop the '-z separate-code' from generating two read-only segments. 2024-06-13 15:10:15 +01:00
configure.host
configure.tgt Add /usr/lib32 to the native search paths for FreeBSD systems. 2024-07-25 15:27:40 +01:00
deffile.h
deffilep.y
dep-in.sed
elf-hints-local.h
fdl.texi
gen-doc.texi
genscrba.sh
genscripts.sh Add --rosegment option to BFD linker to stop the '-z separate-code' from generating two read-only segments. 2024-06-13 15:10:15 +01:00
h8-doc.texi
ld.h Add --section-ordering command line option to the bfd linker. 2024-05-10 16:59:05 +01:00
ld.texi Revert: 35fd2ddeb1 2024-06-26 13:17:25 +01:00
ldbuildid.c
ldbuildid.h
ldcref.c
ldctor.c
ldctor.h
ldelf.c Revert: 35fd2ddeb1 2024-06-26 13:17:25 +01:00
ldelf.h
ldelfgen.c
ldelfgen.h
ldemul.c
ldemul.h
ldexp.c
ldexp.h
ldfile.c Revert: 35fd2ddeb1 2024-06-26 13:17:25 +01:00
ldfile.h Revert: 35fd2ddeb1 2024-06-26 13:17:25 +01:00
ldgram.y Revert: 35fd2ddeb1 2024-06-26 13:17:25 +01:00
ldint.texi ld/doc: drop stray blank 2024-06-28 13:16:14 +02:00
ldlang.c Add --section-ordering command line option to the bfd linker. 2024-05-10 16:59:05 +01:00
ldlang.h Revert: 35fd2ddeb1 2024-06-26 13:17:25 +01:00
ldlex-wrapper.c
ldlex.h Add --rosegment option to BFD linker to stop the '-z separate-code' from generating two read-only segments. 2024-06-13 15:10:15 +01:00
ldlex.l Add --section-ordering command line option to the bfd linker. 2024-05-10 16:59:05 +01:00
ldmain.c Add --section-ordering command line option to the bfd linker. 2024-05-10 16:59:05 +01:00
ldmain.h
ldmisc.c
ldmisc.h
ldver.c
ldver.h
ldwrite.c
ldwrite.h
lexsup.c Revert: 35fd2ddeb1 2024-06-26 13:17:25 +01:00
libdep_plugin.c libdep plugin: fix bugs in parser and drop escaping 2024-06-24 16:00:14 +01:00
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Makefile.am Revert "Remove LIBINTL_DEP" 2024-06-20 21:15:27 +09:30
Makefile.in Revert "Remove LIBINTL_DEP" 2024-06-20 21:15:27 +09:30
mri.c
mri.h
NEWS gas/NEWS, ld/NEWS: Announce LoongArch changes in 2.43 2024-07-30 09:15:02 +08:00
pdb.c ld/PDB: handle empty LF_FIELDLIST types 2024-08-01 01:33:34 +01:00
pdb.h
pe-dll.c Improve comments describing the Import Directory Table 2024-06-27 12:17:27 +01:00
pe-dll.h
pep-dll-aarch64.c
pep-dll-x86_64.c
pep-dll.c
pep-dll.h
plugin.c lto: Don't include unused LTO archive members in output 2024-08-15 03:54:11 -07:00
plugin.h
README
sysdep.h
testplug2.c
testplug3.c
testplug4.c
testplug.c
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This is the GNU linker.  It is distributed with other "binary
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There are many features of the linker:

* The linker uses a Binary File Descriptor library (../bfd)
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* The linker supports a number of different object file
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=======================

See the ldint.texi manual.

Reporting bugs etc
===========================

See ../binutils/README.

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==============

The Solaris linker normally exports all dynamic symbols from an
executable.  The GNU linker does not do this by default.  This is
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