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Re: darwin LTO broken under Xcode 3.2.6/4.0
On Mar 13, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>> Yes, I agree that this is a better solution. This error was put into the linker to detect some overflow conditions for part of the code that expected the section number to only be a byte. It is likely that "things worked" only out of luck before.
>>
>> -Chris
>
> Chris,
> Is there any documentation or example code on how to properly use subsections in mach-o?
> My fear is that we are moving from one poorly documented technique to another which may well
> have it own slate of hidden bugs.
I'm not sure what you mean here Jack. ld64 is open source on the darwin page, and if you have all the developer bits installed, the format is "documented" in /usr/include/mach-o/. It's pretty clear all around that you can only have 256 sections.
-Chris