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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2008-05-21 10:59:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2008-05-21 10:59:12 +0000 |
| commit | 41911f68522e3043ab6f32594eea32cdd8581a14 (patch) | |
| tree | c0782ab42a52b61e524b3d54433deb7cfa84462a /ld/NEWS | |
| parent | 7fac05361cfff456e6eb938cbc3817053dee3c54 (diff) | |
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PR ld/6430
* ld.texinfo (--sort-common): Correct documentation to indicate
that sorting is performed by alignment, not size, biggest
alignment first.
Diffstat (limited to 'ld/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | ld/NEWS | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -298,9 +298,11 @@ Changes in version 2.7: Changes in version 2.6: * When an ELF section name is representable as a C identifier (this is not true -of most ELF section names), the linker will automatically define symbols -__start_SECNAME and __stop_SECNAME, where SECNAME is the section name, at the -beginning and the end of the section. This is used by glibc. + of most ELF section names), *and* the section is not explicitly handled by + the linker script (ie it is an orphaned section) then the linker will + automatically PROVIDE symbols __start_SECNAME and __stop_SECNAME, where + SECNAME is the section name, at the beginning and the end of the section. + This is used by glibc. * When an ELF section named .gnu.warning is encountered in an input file, the contents of the section are displayed as an error message, and the section is |