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From: "Boris Vrbaniæ" <boris DOT vrbanic AT hi DOT hinet DOT hr>
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Subject: Re: /DISCARD/ in linker script
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 06:58:03 +0200
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"Martin Str|mberg" <ams AT speedy DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se> wrote in message
news:1021312249 DOT 448613 AT queeg DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se...
>
> Can anyone show me an example of a link script that uses the
> "/DISCARD/" section?
>
> I want to make the .bss not to be included in output file. I use the
> binary format ("ld --oformat binary").
>
> Right now I have:
> ENTRY(start)
> SECTIONS
> {
> .text 0 : {
> *(.text)
> etext = . ; _etext = .;
> . = ALIGN(0x100);
> }
> .data ALIGN(0x100) : {
> *(.data)
> edata = . ; _edata = .;
> . = ALIGN(0x100);
> }
> /DISCARD/ SIZEOF(.data) + ADDR(.data) : {
> *(.bss)
> *(COMMON)
> end = . ; _end = .;
> . = ALIGN(0x100);
> }
> }
>
> ld says "Illegal use of `/DISCARD/' section"
>
>
> Right,
>
> MartinS

/DISCARD/ section is used like any other section, example

/DISCARD/ {
    *(.eh_frame)
}

this tells linker to discard section "eh_frame" from object file