GNU ld on x86 Solaris

[Michael Meissner]

Fred Richardson writes:
| So I wonder what "NOTE" is for...

I believe the NOTE identifies this program as being linked for
Solaris/x86, as opposed to some other x86 supporting the System V ABI
(like Linux).

| I also found that if I run the linker without including:
|     /usr/ccs/lib/values-Xa.o
| the program links successfully.  But on the sparc, the same file is
| included without causing a hitch...
| 
| Well, one further clue.  On the sparc, each of these files:
|     /usr/ccs/lib/values-Xa.o
|     /usr/ccs/lib/values-Xc.o
|     /usr/ccs/lib/values-Xs.o
|     /usr/ccs/lib/values-Xt.o
| has these sections:
|      0 .text
|      1 .data
|      2 .rodata
|      3 .stab.index
|      4 .stab.indexstr
|      5 .comment
| 
| but on the x86, they have these sections:
|      0 .text
|      1 .stab.index
|      2 .stab.indexstr
|      3 .comment
|      4 .data
|      5 .stab.excl
|      6 .stab.exclstr
| 
| Could the ".stab.excl" and ".stab.exclstr" have something to do with
| the new "NOTE" section?  I'm afraid I don't really know what any of
| this is...
| 
|                 -Fred