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b62f36f3
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Date :
2024-03-13T23:34:55
test: nlist: make resilient against -Wl,--gc-sections
With linker sections GC enabled, we get a test failure in `nlist.c`:
```
nlist: nlist.c:72: main: Assertion `rc == 0' failed.
```
This turns out to be because several sections used by the test can be discarded:
```
ld: removing unused section '.text.func_pub' in file 'nlist.o'
ld: removing unused section '.bss.data_pub_uninit' in file 'nlist.o'
ld: removing unused section '.data.data_pub_init' in file 'nlist.o'
```
Reproduced with `CFLAGS="-Og -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections"` and
`LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,-z,start-stop-gc"`.
Additionally, `LDFLAGS="... -Wl,--print-gc-sections"` can help with diagnosing
which sections get removed.
We already mark these symbols as `used`, but we need `retain` [0] for them
to survive linker GC too.
[0] https://releases.llvm.org/18.1.0/tools/lld/docs/ELF/start-stop-gc.html#annotate-c-identifier-name-sections
Closes: !29
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>