[PATCH] D42748: [ELF] Don't create a .dynamic section when linking with -Bstatic

[Ed Schouten via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

ed added a comment.

In D42748#1510087 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D42748#1510087>, @MaskRay wrote:

> @ed I want to knore more about your motivation to add --export-dynamic to the condition in D29982 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D29982>. Why do you need .dynamic in a position dependent executable for CloudABI, which has no shared object dependency on the linker command line?


For CloudABI it's useful to have when you want to create binaries that are able to print their own stack traces with symbol names in them. The regular symbol table isn't mapped into the address space of the application, whereas the dynamic symbol table is.


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