[fpc-devel] Smart-linking on linux/x86-64

[Joost van der Sluis]

Op 05-07-2022 om 23:45 schreef Sven Barth via fpc-devel:
> Joost van der Sluis via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org 
> <mailto:fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org>> schrieb am Di., 5. Juli 2022, 
> 22:37:
> 
> I think many people would be glad if you'd solve the issue of smart 
> linking with debug information when an external linker is used. :)

That's easy. See the attachment (Linux only). The results are similar as 
gcc produces. Apparently ld does not regard references in debug-sections 
as real references, and replaces them with 0-addresses. Just like our 
internal linker on Windows does.

I don't dare to push it, though. Because:

1: Someone disabled this because some older version of LD cannot handle 
it. Maybe some version we use still use on some targets/systems?

2: Someone disabled this because of some corner-case we now don't know 
of anymore.

Does anyone have some more information?

Regards,

Joost
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