Re: [PATCH] x86: clean up vdso-layout.lds.S

[Roland McGrath]

> Which version of binutils are you using? I'm using binutils-2.19, and
> all empty sections get completely discarded, i.e. they do not affect the
> size of the output in any way.

Oh, empty, sure.  So then what is ".broken" for at all?
I thought this was for the nonempty-but-useless ones like .got et al
that the linker will insist on creating but we don't really need in the vDSO.


Thanks,
Roland
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