From 9f259b46b760b2aa08ac1fe76fe61df514e2768f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Michal Sekletar <msekleta@redhat.com>

Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 10:05:42 +0200

Subject: [PATCH] buildsys: don't garbage collect sections while linking

gc-sections is actually very aggressive and garbage collects ELF

sections used by annobin gcc plugin and annocheck then reports gaps in

coverage. Let's drop that linker flag.

RHEL-only

Resolves: #1748258

---

 meson.build | 2 --

 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build

index 04b461dcd4..613a5133b6 100644

--- a/meson.build

+++ b/meson.build

@@ -357,8 +357,6 @@ if get_option('buildtype') != 'debug'

                 '-ffunction-sections',

                 '-fdata-sections',

         ]

-

-        possible_link_flags += '-Wl,--gc-sections'

 endif

 add_project_arguments(cc.get_supported_arguments(possible_cc_flags), language : 'c')