Landing: cca4420639a1
Project / Subsystem
binutils / hppa64
Date
2026-05-07
Author
John David Anglin <danglin@sourceware.org>
Commit
cca4420639a1390f1fb23286618efbe494987825
Source
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- hppa64: Re-enable -gc-section support on hppa*64*-*-hpux*
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- -gc-section support is re-enabled for HP-UX on hppa64 by handling relocations with invalid offsets.
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- John David Anglin <danglin@sourceware.org>
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- • ld
- • hppa64
- • hpux
- • -gc-sections
- • relocation
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- date
- 2026-05-07T00:00:00.000Z
-gc-section support has been re-enabled for hppa64--hpux. The linker now allocates 16 bytes at the start of the .data section and remaps relocations with invalid offsets to this area. This resolves issues with the HP dynamic linker and allows unused sections to be garbage collected.