On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 03:44:44PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > For my own education, is .got for prom_init.o still generated by ld or gcc?
.got is generated by ld. > In other words, should "objdump -D -s -j .got" ever dump .got for any .o > file, like below? No. "objdump -r prom_init.o | grep GOT" will tell you whether prom_init.o *may* cause ld to generate .got entries. (Linker optimisations or --gc-sections might remove the need for those .got entries.) > objdump: section '.got' mentioned in a -j option, but not found in any input > file Right, expected. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM
