[PATCH] Disable section merging with non-capable linkers

Eric Botcazou ebotcazou@adacore.com
Tue Jan 17 23:49:00 GMT 2006


> You get different SHF_MERGE settings from different versions of
> the compiler, or what?

Worse than that, from different optimization levels of the same compiler.

> How is not merging a problem in practice? 

Multiple .debug_str sections in the same executable break GDB.

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Eric Botcazou



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