--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 09:00
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Created an attachment (id=2745)
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Document the linker's ability to generate section start and end symbols
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--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 09:03
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Hi Daniel,
Well the NEWS entry is wrong in two respects. Firstly the linker does not
just generate the symbols, it PROVIDEs them. So if they are not used elsewhere
in the executable they will not be entered
--- Additional Comments From drow at sources dot redhat dot com 2008-05-21
12:07 ---
I didn't realize this was only done for orphaned sections. I suppose it's
harder to do for things mentioned in the linker script, and there's an obvious
way to do it manually - in keeping with the
Hi Daniel,
Meanwhile, for this bug. I'm not sure about editing the NEWS entry since the
current behavior may be more recent than 2.6. But the manual change looks
perfect to me.
Tell you what - I'll check in the change to the manual as-is and add an
addendum to the NEWS entry describing how
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 12:17
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Patch checked in.
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What|Removed |Added
Status|WAITING |RESOLVED
--- Additional Comments From drow at sources dot redhat dot com 2008-05-21
12:23 ---
Subject: Re: __start_SECNAME undocumented
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:10:51PM -, nickc at redhat dot com wrote:
Tell you what - I'll check in the change to the manual as-is and add an
addendum
