[uClinux-dev] [patch] Support C++ in elf2flt.ld.

[Bernd Schmidt]

Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> From Kazu's/Nathan's description I can't really figure it out, I'm
>> afraid.  What kind of optimization is the linker doing?
> 
> It's doing some post processing of the .eh_frame and .eh_frame_hdr
> sections.  So it needs to see those in the final link.  If the
> .eh_frame_hdr section has contents, this post processing is necessary
> for correctness.  A sufficiently recent GCC emits .eh_frame_hdr because
> it sees (when configured) a binutils that supports this post processing.

How recent is sufficient?  We've only really been using up to 4.1/2.17.

How exactly does it fail without this patch?


Bernd
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