https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31415
--- Comment #1 from Alastair Houghton <alast...@alastairs-place.net> --- Just to add to the above, you might say "well, you should either always set `SHF_GNU_RETAIN` or never set it". The issue comes where, for example, you have library code that would like to access embedded data if it's present, so declares the section in order to get the `__start` and `__stop` symbols, and then the other code (maybe built a lot later, or even by someone completely different) that generates that data wants to be able to *optionally* set the retain flag. The library code has no way to know whether or not it's going to be set in the future. If it doesn't set the flag, `gold` won't coalesce the section with code that did, and vice-versa. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
