https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21524
--- Comment #7 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> --- Hi Adhemerval, I think that this bug is symptomatic of a larger problem - when the linker runs garbage collection it does not remove the debug information connected to the sections that it decides to discard. In this particular case the debug information concerned contains a relocation that references a symbol in the discarded section. This then triggers the abort in the linker when it detects that it is about to write out a relocation that can no longer be processed properly. I have checked in a patch to replace the call to abort with an informative error message, and an error result from the link. This should help future users who encounter this same problem. It does not resolve the bigger problem however - that of removing the redundant debug information. There is a solution to the problem, although it requires an enhancement to both the compiler and the linker. If the compiler were to generate a section group containing both the compiled code/data and its associated debug information, then the linker garbage collector could discard the entire group when it finds that the code/data is no longer needed. It just needs a motivated developer to decide that the idea is worth implementing... Cheers Nick -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
