On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 10:17:22AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 04.03.2022 09:57, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 08:49:39AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> This simply parallels .dtors. Both section types can reference
> >> .text.exit, which requires them to be discarded together with that one.
> >> Compilers, depending on their findings during the configure phase, may
> >> elect to use either model. While .{init,fini}_array look to be
> >> preferred, cross compilers apparently have this guessed, likely
> >> resulting in a fallback to .{c,d}tors. Hence we need to support both
> >> sets.
> >
> > Do we also need to consider discarding .fini? Or that's guaranteed to
> > not be used by the compiler?
>
> I'm not aware of it being used anymore; if it was used, we'd also need
> to deal with .init (which - logically, but not technically - would
> conflict with our own section of this same name in xen.efi).
We would realize if having the orphaned check (or like here would get
missing references.
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>
Thanks, Roger.
