Messages in this thread | | | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Date | Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:48:45 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/boot/compressed: Remove unnecessary sections from bzImage |
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 01:28:28PM -0800, Fangrui Song wrote: > Hi Michael, please see my other reply on this thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/24/47 > > Synthesized sections can be matched as well. For example, SECTIONS { .pltfoo : { *(.plt) }} can rename the output section .plt to .pltfoo > It seems that in GNU ld, the synthesized section is associated with the > original object file, so it can be written as: > > SECTIONS { .pltfoo : { a.o(.plt) }} > > In lld, you need a wildcard to match the synthesized section *(.plt) > > .rela.dyn is another example. >
With the BFD toolchain, file matching doesn't actually seem to work at least for .rela.dyn. I've tried playing around with it in the past and if you try to use file-matching to capture relocations from a particular input file, it just doesn't work sensibly.
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