[Bug ld/20513] GNU ld does not ignore symbols defined in sections marked EXCLUDE

[amodra at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20513

Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com> ---
My gut feeling is that it would be better to deal with this as we do with other
sections that are discarded early in the link.

--- a/ld/ldlang.c
+++ b/ld/ldlang.c
@@ -2294,6 +2294,12 @@ section_already_linked (bfd *abfd, asection *sec, void
*data)
       return;
     }

+  /* Deal with SHF_EXCLUDE ELF sections.  */
+  if (!bfd_link_relocatable (&link_info)
+      && (abfd->flags & BFD_PLUGIN) == 0
+      && (sec->flags & (SEC_GROUP | SEC_KEEP | SEC_EXCLUDE)) == SEC_EXCLUDE)
+    sec->output_section = bfd_abs_section_ptr;
+
   if (!(abfd->flags & DYNAMIC))
     bfd_section_already_linked (abfd, sec, &link_info);
 }

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