From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail•com>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@linux•ibm.com>
Cc: alexey@au1•ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org, ellerman@au1•ibm.com
Subject: Re: PowerPC64 future proof kernel toc, revised for lld
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:37:22 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210310050722.GN6042@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c92968f-7c61-8d36-4001-91f8630de4b1@linux.ibm.com>
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 03:44:44PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> For my own education, is .got for prom_init.o still generated by ld or gcc?
.got is generated by ld.
> In other words, should "objdump -D -s -j .got" ever dump .got for any .o
> file, like below?
No. "objdump -r prom_init.o | grep GOT" will tell you whether
prom_init.o *may* cause ld to generate .got entries. (Linker
optimisations or --gc-sections might remove the need for those .got
entries.)
> objdump: section '.got' mentioned in a -j option, but not found in any input
> file
Right, expected.
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-10 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-09 4:56 PowerPC64 future proof kernel toc, revised Alan Modra
2021-03-10 3:48 ` PowerPC64 future proof kernel toc, revised for lld Alan Modra
2021-03-10 4:44 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2021-03-10 5:07 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2021-03-10 9:33 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2021-03-10 12:25 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-10 12:44 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-03-10 16:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-03-10 23:41 ` Alan Modra
2021-03-11 23:32 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-03-12 3:45 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
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