Re: discarded `.exit.text' debugging?

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Mon Oct 20 2008 - 18:01:50 EST


Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Last night I got these in my build logs:
>
> | `.exit.text' referenced in section `.init.text' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
> | `.exit.text' referenced in section `.data' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
>
> i.e. not much context. Is there an easy way to find out who's the
> offender?

You could try giving each .exit.text section a unique name per object
file (so that "ld -r" does not merge them) and modify EXIT_TEXT to
collect all those sections during the final link.

Andreas.

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