[Bug gold/30187] ld.bfd and ld.gold versions in .comment section of ELF files

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30187

Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> changed:

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   Last reconfirmed|                            |2023-03-01
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                 CC|                            |nickc at redhat dot com

--- Comment #1 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Tom Kacvinsky from comment #0)
Hi Tom,

> Results in the ld.gold version not being in the .comment section. 

But - just to be clear - it is in the .note.gnu.gold-version section:

  % readelf -p.note.gnu.gold-version a.out

  String dump of section '.note.gnu.gold-version':
    [     c]  GNU
    [    10]  gold 1.16

So this is a request for gold to add or move the version number into the
.comment
section, right ?  And add the feature to ld too, of course.


Note - it is possible to achieve the desired effect using an extra object file:

  % cat ld-version.s
        .section .comment       
        .asciz "GNU ld version 2.37-37.fc36";
  % gcc hello.c ld-version.s
  % readelf -p.comment
   [     0]  GCC: (GNU) 12.2.1 20221121 (Red Hat 12.2.1-4)
   [    2e]  GCC: (GNU) 12.0.1 20220413 (Red Hat 12.0.1-0)
   [    5c]  GNU ld version 2.37-37.fc36

But I am sure that this is not what you want.

Hmm, let me see if it is an easy thing to do...

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