Linker won't bail out on non-existing functions?

[Alexander Monakov]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2020, Josef Wolf wrote:

> So why won't the linker bail out when it can't resolve a reference?
> Any hints?

You're linking with --gc-sections, and if all references to undefined functions
are in discarded sections, the linker won't complain. In other words, checking
for remaining undefined references happens after discarding unneeded sections.

Alexander