On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Martin Ünsal <martinunsal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a bug which appears to be GNU toolchain related. I reported > this bug to LTTng mailing list here: > > http://lists.lttng.org/pipermail/lttng-dev/2014-April/022950.html > > The root cause appears to be a change in the way the GNU linker treats > the __start_SECNAME symbol, which occured between 4.6.4 and 4.7.2. The > only documentation for this feature that I was able to find was on > gcc-help mailing list: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2010-04/msg00113.html > > I have some questions: > > 1) Is __start_SECNAME feature documented in more detail anywhere? > 2) Why did the __start_SECNAME symbol move from local to global scope > between 4.6.4 and 4.7.2? > > Any other insight into this issue would be very helpful. This is implemented by the GNU linker, which is part of the GNU binutils, not GCC. You should send a note to the mailing list binutils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx . See http://sourceware.org/binutils/ . Ian
