On January 10, 2018 6:28:57 PM GMT+01:00, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote:
>On 01/10/2018 03:05 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
>> 
>> This joint work rewrites LTO debug section copying to not leave
>> discarded sections around as SHT_NULL but to really discard them
>> and deal with the fallout (remapping all remaining section
>references).
>> This is to avoid diagnostics from the Solaris linker which doesn't
>> like those.
>> 
>> LTO bootstrapped on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, I also tested the
>> "incredibly large # of sections" testcase to verify SHN_XINDEX
>> handling.  A regular bootstrap & test run is currently in progress.
>> 
>> Rainer, can you check this patch on Solaris?  Maybe we can finally
>> close that PR ...
>> 
>> Ok for trunk?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Richard.
>> 
>> 2017-01-10  Richard Biener  <rguent...@suse.de>
>>      Rainer Orth  <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
>> 
>>      PR lto/81968
>>      libiberty/
>>      * simple-object-common.h (struct simple_object_functions):
>>      Change copy_lto_debug_sections callback signature.
>>      * simple-object-elf.c (SHN_HIRESERVE, SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX,
>>      SHF_INFO_LINK): Add defines.
>>      (simple_object_elf_copy_lto_debug_sections): Instead of
>>      leaving not to be copied sections empty unnamed SHT_NULL
>>      remove them from the target section headers and adjust section
>>      reference everywhere.  Handle SHN_XINDEX in the symbol table
>>      processing properly.
>>      * simple-object.c (handle_lto_debug_sections): Change
>>      interface to return a modified string and handle renaming
>>      of relocation sections.
>Note there's also 82005 which affects Darwin.  It might be worth
>reaching out to the Darwin folks and see if this helps them as well.

Darwin doesn't use ELF and thus is not affected by this patch. 

Richard. 

>
>jeff

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