On 11/08/2009 04:38 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> I think ld discards zero size sections. No need to keep them around
> if they are empty.
> 
> Following patch should fix it up in a better way.
> I reused most of Hannes changelog.

Part of me wonders if this isn't better handled by just making relocs.c
deal with _end as a special case (and of course making it possible to
add others.)

Here is a distinctively non-minimal patch -- I used a modified version
of relocs.c for the Syslinux project, and this is basically a backport
of the changes I did for that.  It uses a regex to match either
known-absolute or known-relative symbols; the remaining changes are
mostly just dealing with particularly stupid code like using printf() to
do the work of fwrite(), and using select() where appropriate.

Sam, Ingo: I'd appreciate your opinions before checking anything in on this.

	-hpa