On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 02:02:11AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 21.07.15 at 19:23, <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> wrote: > > First of all ld generates .got.plt section and objcopy copy it to binary > > file. > > It is not needed because we do not link our stuff here with shared > > libraries. > > So, we can use -R objcopy option to remove it (if you do not like -j .text). > > This way we could save 15 bytes (at least on my machines). > > So I checked and did find no .got.plt at all on a machine using > binutils 2.25 and an empty one on a machine using an older > version. So I'm curious what you're seeing present in that > table (without any of your patches applied).
Here it is: [...] Section Headers: [Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al [ 0] NULL 00000000 000000 000000 00 0 0 0 [ 1] .text PROGBITS 00000000 000080 000705 00 WAX 0 0 16 [ 2] .eh_frame PROGBITS 00000708 000788 000104 00 A 0 0 4 [ 3] .got.plt PROGBITS 0000080c 00088c 00000c 04 WA 0 0 4 [ 4] .comment PROGBITS 00000000 000898 00001c 01 MS 0 0 1 [ 5] .debug_aranges PROGBITS 00000000 0008b4 000020 00 0 0 1 [ 6] .debug_info PROGBITS 00000000 0008d4 000c2c 00 0 0 1 [ 7] .debug_abbrev PROGBITS 00000000 001500 000303 00 0 0 1 [ 8] .debug_line PROGBITS 00000000 001803 000180 00 0 0 1 [ 9] .debug_str PROGBITS 00000000 001983 000236 01 MS 0 0 1 [10] .debug_loc PROGBITS 00000000 001bb9 0007b8 00 0 0 1 [11] .debug_ranges PROGBITS 00000000 002371 000030 00 0 0 1 [12] .shstrtab STRTAB 00000000 0023a1 000096 00 0 0 1 [13] .symtab SYMTAB 00000000 002690 000290 10 14 36 4 [14] .strtab STRTAB 00000000 002920 000162 00 0 0 1 [...] It is generated using ld from binutils 2.22. I was thinking that -static ld option would remove .got.plt but it did not. Daniel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
