"H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> writes: > On 12/07/2010 04:20 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: >> >> The only problem left is mixing of lto and non lto objects. this right >> now is not handled. IMHO still the best way to handle it is to use >> slim lto and then simply separate link the "left overs" after deleting >> the LTO objects. This can be actually done with objcopy (with some >> limitations), doesn't even need linker support. >> > > Quite possibly a better way to deal with that is to provide a mechanism > for encapsulating arbitrary binary code objects inside the LTO IR.
And when we use a special section name, using an unprintable name is needlessly painful and will make it hard to play convenient games with objcopy. Just use a printable name starting with .gnu. (This assumes that we do need a special section, rather than, say, a note.) Ian
