[Bug ld/19254] "too many sections" when linking COFF executables

2016-12-02 Thread olsner at gmail dot com
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19254 --- Comment #3 from Simon Brenner --- Looked a bit at the pe.sc script in git[1] earlier and there is actually section merging being done there, but for sections named like ".data$*" rather than the ELF convention of ".data.*" - so this could

[Bug ld/19254] New: "too many sections" when linking COFF executables

2015-11-17 Thread olsner at gmail dot com
Component: ld Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org Reporter: olsner at gmail dot com Target Milestone: --- When linking an executable out of many object files with many sections, it seems that if the total number of input sections is larger than COFF/PE's maximum th