On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:15:01PM +0000, Matthew Fortune wrote: > >From the first implementation of .MIPS.abiflags the linker does not invent this section > other than by merging input sections called .MIPS.abiflags so if the input sections > are DISCARD'd then you will never see a .MIPS.abiflags output section nor the associated > program header. > > I'm 99% sure of the above. Great. Aaro is going to resubmit this patch with some additional changes suggested by David Daney on IRC so I'm going to drop this patch. Ralf