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The trick we use to prevent ld doing as it does for almost all other sections and copying the input CTF section into the output has recently broken, causing output to be produced with a valid CTF section followed by massive numbers of CTF sections, one per .ctf in the input (minus one, for the one that was filled out by ctf_link). Their size is being forcibly set to zero, but they're still present, wasting space and looking ridiculous. This is not right: ld/ld-new : section size addr .interp 28 4194984 [...] .bss 21840 6788544 .comment 92 0 .ctf 87242 0 .ctf 0 0 .ctf 0 0 [snip 131 more empty sections] .gnu.build.attributes 7704 6818576 .debug_aranges 6592 0 .debug_info 4488859 0 .debug_abbrev 150099 0 .debug_line 796759 0 .debug_str 237926 0 .debug_loc 2247302 0 .debug_ranges 237920 0 Total 10865285 The fix is to exclude these unwanted input sections from being present in the output. We tried this before and it broke things, because if you exclude all the .ctf sections there isn't going to be one in the output so there is nowhere to put the deduplicated CTF. The solution to that is really simple: set SEC_EXCLUDE on *all but one* CTF section. We don't care which one (they're all the same once their size has been zeroed), so just pick the first we see. ld/ * ldlang.c (ldlang_open_ctf): Set SEC_EXCLUDE on all but the first input .ctf section. |
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README for LD
This is the GNU linker. It is distributed with other "binary
utilities" which should be in ../binutils. See ../binutils/README for
more general notes, including where to send bug reports.
There are many features of the linker:
* The linker uses a Binary File Descriptor library (../bfd)
that it uses to read and write object files. This helps
insulate the linker itself from the format of object files.
* The linker supports a number of different object file
formats. It can even handle multiple formats at once:
Read two input formats and write a third.
* The linker can be configured for cross-linking.
* The linker supports a control language.
* There is a user manual (ld.texi), as well as the
beginnings of an internals manual (ldint.texi).
Installation
============
See ../binutils/README.
If you want to make a cross-linker, you may want to specify
a different search path of -lfoo libraries than the default.
You can do this by setting the LIB_PATH variable in ./Makefile
or using the --with-lib-path configure switch.
To build just the linker, make the target all-ld from the top level
directory (one directory above this one).
Porting to a new target
=======================
See the ldint.texi manual.
Reporting bugs etc
===========================
See ../binutils/README.
Known problems
==============
The Solaris linker normally exports all dynamic symbols from an
executable. The GNU linker does not do this by default. This is
because the GNU linker tries to present the same interface for all
similar targets (in this case, all native ELF targets). This does not
matter for normal programs, but it can make a difference for programs
which try to dlopen an executable, such as PERL or Tcl. You can make
the GNU linker export all dynamic symbols with the -E or
--export-dynamic command line option.
HP/UX 9.01 has a shell bug that causes the linker scripts to be
generated incorrectly. The symptom of this appears to be "fatal error
- scanner input buffer overflow" error messages. There are various
workarounds to this:
* Build and install bash, and build with "make SHELL=bash".
* Update to a version of HP/UX with a working shell (e.g., 9.05).
* Replace "(. ${srcdir}/scripttempl/${SCRIPT_NAME}.sc)" in
genscripts.sh with "sh ${srcdir}..." (no parens) and make sure the
emulparams script used exports any shell variables it sets.
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