[Bug ld/20828] [MIPS] produces invalid dynamic symbol table when --gc-sections is used since PR ld/13177 fix

[glaubitz at physik dot fu-berlin.de]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20828

--- Comment #14 from John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik dot 
fu-berlin.de> ---
Hi Maciej!

(In reply to Maciej W. Rozycki from comment #12)
> There's been no further feedback from other people and myself I haven't
> made up my mind about this bug yet, so if you are blocked with your
> work, then for the time being please use one of the proposals posted
> here as a temporary workaround.

The problem with this approach is that our toolchain maintainers are unwilling
to merge a patch which has not been fully approved upstream for a supported
target architecture.

This means, the binutils package in Debian is still broken on all MIPS targets
(mips32 big-endian, mips32 little-endian, mips64 little-endian) in Debian and
if the issue is not resolved within the near future, the upcoming Debian
Stretch release may be shipped without any official support for MIPS [1].

So, from the Debian point-of-view, fixing this bug has urgent priority unless
we want to waive for MIPS support.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://release.debian.org/stretch/arch_qualify.html

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