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Subject: RE: cygwin ld import library issue fix (removing unused "_nm_" symbols)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:35:00 +0200
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>
>          * emultempl/pe.em (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan): Likewise.
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Then this file could only be affected
>
When you take a look at the following changelog entry I assume, that this isn't
the problem, because there are only 4 changed lines, much more changes are
located in the bfd lib

http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/ld/emultempl/pe.em?rev=1.57&con
tent-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src

Revision 1.57 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Mon Dec 17 00:40:53
2001 UTC (4 months, 1 week ago) by amodra
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.56: +4 -0 lines
Diff to previous 1.56 (colored)
hash bfd sections for fast lookup and create.
bfd/ChangeLog
	* bfd.c (struct _bfd): Add section_htab, section_tail.
	* libbfd-in.h (_bfd_delete_bfd): Declare.
	(bfd_section_hash_newfunc): Declare.
	* opncls.c (_bfd_new_bfd): Free memory on failure.  Init
	section_htab and section_tail.
	(_bfd_delete_bfd): New function.
	(bfd_openr): Use it.
	(bfd_fdopenr): Likewise.
	(bfd_openstreamr): Likewise.
	(bfd_openw): Likewise.
	(bfd_close): Likewise.
	(bfd_close_all_done): Likewise.
	(bfd_release): Comment.
	* section.c (struct section_hash_entry): New.
	(bfd_section_hash_newfunc): New function.
	(section_hash_lookup): Define.
	(bfd_section_init): New function, split out from
	bfd_make_section_anyway.
	(bfd_get_section_by_name): Lookup via hash table.
	(bfd_get_unique_section_name): Likewise.
	(bfd_make_section_old_way): Rewrite to use hash table.
	(bfd_make_section_anyway): Likewise.
	(bfd_make_section): Likewise.  Return NULL for attempts to make
	BFD_{ABS,COM,UND,IND}_SECTION_NAME.
	(_bfd_strip_section_from_output): Adjust section_tail if needed.
	* configure.in: Bump bfd version.
	* configure: Regenerate.
	* libbfd.h: Regenerate.
	* bfd-in2.h: Regenerate.

ld/ChangeLog
	* emultempl/elf32.em (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan): Adjust
	section_tail when fiddling with section list.
	(gld${EMULATION_NAME}_list_options): Ensure sentences aren't
	broken into separate strings to make translation easier.
	* emultempl/mmo.em (mmo_place_orphan): Adjust section_tail when
	fiddling with section list.
	* emultempl/pe.em (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan): Likewise.


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