(much) Older Darwin linkers needed separate sections marked "coalesce" to
allow for weak symbol coalescing. This has not been needed for some time
and is now deprecated, newer assemblers warn if the old coalesced sections
are used.
gcc/
2016-11-27 Iain Sandoe <iain@codesourcery.com>
PR target/71767
* config/darwin-sections.def (picbase_thunk_section): New.
* config/darwin.c (darwin_init_sections): Set up picbase thunk
section. (darwin_rodata_section, darwin_objc2_section,
machopic_select_section, darwin_asm_declare_constant_name,
darwin_emit_weak_or_comdat, darwin_function_section): Don’t use
coalesced with newer linkers.
(darwin_override_options): Decide on usage of coalesed sections
on the basis of the target linker version.
* config/darwin.h (MIN_LD64_NO_COAL_SECTS): New.
* config/darwin.opt (mtarget-linker): New.
* config/i386/i386.c (ix86_code_end): Do not force the thunks into
a coalesced section, instead use a thunks section.
From-SVN: r242895
