Link Problem

[TomD]

TomD Wrote:

> After a couple of miniutes googling around this seems
> to be a bug in ld. Some aritlcles from 2007 or so 
> recommend to downgrade to binutils 2.15 from 2.16.
> *If* your installed binutils is 2.16, you may give it a try.
> 
> Ciao
> Tom

After a bit harder googling I found 
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/binutils/2007-09/msg00096.html
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:19:05PM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
[about references to local symbols in discarded sections causing a
link error]
> Is the behavior in binutils-2.17+ correct?

Well, the linker can't guarantee to fix up the reference to point to
the proper location in the kept section.  Just considering the linker
in isolation, I think it warrants an error.  However, I thought this
gcc bug had been fixed long ago, but if this is occurring with 4.0.2,
perhaps we ought to downgrade the error to a warning again.  (I'm
assuming that the reference was from C++ code rather than assembly,
and that your .a was actually compiled with 4.0.2)

> If so, how do we work around this issue?

Pass --noinhibit-exec to the linker.
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HTH,
Ciao
TomD