One more question - the older version had a construct "DEFINED (.TOC.) ?
.TOC. : ..." in case .TOC. is not defined (too old ld? too old gcc?) but
the newer patch seems assuming it is always defined, when was it added?
I have the same check in SLOF, for example, do I still need it?
On 10/03/2021 16:07, Alan Modra wrote:
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.
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Alexey Kardashevskiy
IBM OzLabs, LTC Team
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