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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU binutils 2.34 uploaded.
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On 2020-03-10 19:58, Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> This is a port of GNU binutils 2.34 to MSDOS/DJGPP.

I have another question, about this part in the ldscript:

    /* Ugly workaround to prevent entire .bss to have attribute CONTENT */
    /* for C++ executables. */
    *(.bss.*)

What does this mean exactly, why is it bad for .bss to have this
attribute?  Would it be a good idea to send this upstream or should a
better solution be found first?

Or can it be removed entirely?  When I compile some C++ code I only see
a single .bss section, no .bss.* subsections.  So I'm not even sure if
this does anything at all.

Also, for reference, I'm staging the patches I want to upstream here:

https://github.com/jwt27/binutils-gdb/pull/3/files

I've made some changes, for example the ability to disable 64k+ reloc
support at runtime is removed.  This can be added in the djgpp release
of binutils of course, to be compatible with older toolchains, but for
general use I don't think it's necessary.