PowerPC64 future proof kernel toc, revised for lld

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 03:44:44PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> For my own education, is .got for prom_init.o still generated by ld or gcc?

.got is generated by ld.

> In other words, should "objdump -D -s -j .got" ever dump .got for any .o
> file, like below?

No.  "objdump -r prom_init.o | grep GOT" will tell you whether
prom_init.o *may* cause ld to generate .got entries.  (Linker
optimisations or --gc-sections might remove the need for those .got
entries.)

> objdump: section '.got' mentioned in a -j option, but not found in any input
> file

Right, expected.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM