Re: [PATCH 3/3] objtool: optimize add_dead_ends for split sections

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 03:13:05PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> BTW, just curious, what's your use case for -ffunction-sections?  Is it
> for fgkaslr?

Both Sami's LTO+CFI work[1] and Kristen's FGKASLR series use it.

-Kees

[1] https://github.com/samitolvanen/linux/commits/clang-cfi
    https://lwn.net/Articles/810077/

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Kees Cook