Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 02/23] x86/boot: copy only text section from *.lnk file to *.bin file

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 21.07.15 at 19:23, <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> First of all ld generates .got.plt section and objcopy copy it to binary 
> file.
> It is not needed because we do not link our stuff here with shared 
> libraries.
> So, we can use -R objcopy option to remove it (if you do not like -j .text).
> This way we could save 15 bytes (at least on my machines).

So I checked and did find no .got.plt at all on a machine using
binutils 2.25 and an empty one on a machine using an older
version. So I'm curious what you're seeing present in that
table (without any of your patches applied).

Jan


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