# Linker script for PE.## Copyright (C) 2014-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.## Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,# are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright# notice and this notice are preserved. if test -z "${RELOCATEABLE_OUTPUT_FORMAT}"; then RELOCATEABLE_OUTPUT_FORMAT=${OUTPUT_FORMAT}fi # We can't easily and portably get an unquoted $ in a shell# substitution, so we do this instead.# Sorting of the .foo$* sections is required by the definition of# grouped sections in PE.# Sorting of the file names in R_IDATA and R_DIDAT is required by the# current implementation of dlltool (this could probably be changed to# use grouped sections instead).if test "${RELOCATING}"; then R_TEXT='*(SORT(.text$*))' if test "x$LD_FLAG" = "xauto_import" ; then R_DATA='*(SORT(.data$*)) *(.rdata) *(SORT(.rdata$*))' R_RDATA='' else R_DATA='*(SORT(.data$*))' R_RDATA='*(.rdata) *(SORT(.rdata$*))' fi R_IDATA234=' KEEP (SORT(*)(.idata$2)) KEEP (SORT(*)(.idata$3)) /* These zeroes mark the end of the import list. */ LONG (0); LONG (0); LONG (0); LONG (0); LONG (0); KEEP (SORT(*)(.idata$4))' R_IDATA5='KEEP (SORT(*)(.idata$5))' R_IDATA67=' KEEP (SORT(*)(.idata$6)) KEEP (SORT(*)(.idata$7))' R_DIDAT234=' __DELAY_IMPORT_DIRECTORY_start__ = .; KEEP (SORT(*)(.didat$2)) KEEP (SORT(*)(.didat$3)) __DELAY_IMPORT_DIRECTORY_end__ = .; /* These zeroes mark the end of the import list. */ . += (__DELAY_IMPORT_DIRECTORY_end__ - __DELAY_IMPORT_DIRECTORY_start__) ? 8*4 : 0; KEEP (SORT(*)(.didat$4))' R_DIDAT5='KEEP (SORT(*)(.didat$5))' R_DIDAT67=' KEEP (SORT(*)(.didat$6)) KEEP (SORT(*)(.didat$7))' R_CRT_XC='KEEP (*(SORT(.CRT$XC*))) /* C initialization */' R_CRT_XI='KEEP (*(SORT(.CRT$XI*))) /* C++ initialization */' R_CRT_XL='KEEP (*(SORT(.CRT$XL*))) /* TLS callbacks */' R_CRT_XP='KEEP (*(SORT(.CRT$XP*))) /* Pre-termination */' R_CRT_XT='KEEP (*(SORT(.CRT$XT*))) /* Termination */' R_CRT_XD='KEEP (*(SORT(.CRT$XD*))) /* Dynamic TLS Initializer */' R_TLS=' KEEP (*(.tls$AAA)) KEEP (*(.tls)) KEEP (*(.tls$)) KEEP (*(SORT(.tls$*))) KEEP (*(.tls$ZZZ))' R_RSRC=' KEEP (*(.rsrc)) KEEP (*(.rsrc$*))'else R_TEXT= R_DATA= R_RDATA='*(.rdata)' R_IDATA234= R_IDATA5= R_IDATA67= R_DIDAT234= R_DIDAT5= R_DIDAT67= R_CRT_XC= R_CRT_XI= R_CRT_XL= R_CRT_XP= R_CRT_XT= R_CRT_XD= R_TLS='*(.tls)' R_RSRC='*(.rsrc)'fi cat <<EOF/* Copyright (C) 2014-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this script, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. */ ${RELOCATING+OUTPUT_FORMAT(${OUTPUT_FORMAT})}${RELOCATING-OUTPUT_FORMAT(${RELOCATEABLE_OUTPUT_FORMAT})}${OUTPUT_ARCH+OUTPUT_ARCH(${OUTPUT_ARCH})} ${LIB_SEARCH_DIRS} SECTIONS{ ${RELOCATING+/* Make the virtual address and file offset synced if the alignment is} ${RELOCATING+ lower than the target page size. */} ${RELOCATING+. = SIZEOF_HEADERS;} ${RELOCATING+. = ALIGN(__section_alignment__);} .text ${RELOCATING+ __image_base__ + ( __section_alignment__ < ${TARGET_PAGE_SIZE} ? . : __section_alignment__ )} : { ${RELOCATING+KEEP (*(SORT_NONE(.init)))} *(.text) ${R_TEXT} ${RELOCATING+ *(.text.*)} ${RELOCATING+ *(.gnu.linkonce.t.*)} ${RELOCATING+*(.glue_7t)} ${RELOCATING+*(.glue_7)} ${RELOCATING+KEEP (*(SORT_NONE(.fini)))} ${RELOCATING+/* ??? Why is .gcc_exc here? */} ${RELOCATING+ *(.gcc_exc)} ${RELOCATING+PROVIDE (etext = .);} ${RELOCATING+PROVIDE (_etext = .);} ${RELOCATING+ KEEP (*(.gcc_except_table))} } /* The Cygwin32 library uses a section to avoid copying certain data on fork. This used to be named ".data$nocopy". The linker used to include this between __data_start__ and __data_end__, but that breaks building the cygwin32 dll. 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If we PROVIDE the symbols then they will not be overridden and global constructors will not be run. See PR 22762 for more details. This does mean that it is not possible for a user to define their own __CTOR_LIST__ and __DTOR_LIST__ symbols; if they do, the content from those variables are included but the symbols defined here silently take precedence. If they truly need to be redefined, a custom linker script will have to be used. (The custom script can just be a copy of this script with the PROVIDE() qualifiers added). In particular this means that ld -Ur does not work, because the proper __CTOR_LIST__ set by ld -Ur is overridden by a bogus __CTOR_LIST__ set by the final link. See PR 46. */ ___CTOR_LIST__ = .; __CTOR_LIST__ = .; LONG (-1); KEEP(*(.ctors)); KEEP(*(.ctor)); KEEP(*(SORT_BY_NAME(.ctors.*))); LONG (0); } ${CONSTRUCTING+ /* See comment about __CTOR_LIST__ above. 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See pe.em:sort_sections. */ ${R_IDATA234} ${RELOCATING+__IAT_start__ = .;} ${R_IDATA5} ${RELOCATING+__IAT_end__ = .;} ${R_IDATA67} } .didat ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} : { /* This cannot currently be handled with grouped sections. See pe.em:sort_sections. */ ${R_DIDAT5} } /* Windows TLS expects .tls\$AAA to be at the start and .tls\$ZZZ to be at the end of section. This is important because _tls_start MUST be at the beginning of the section to enable SECREL32 relocations with TLS data. */ .tls ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} : { ${RELOCATING+___tls_start__ = . ;} ${R_TLS} ${RELOCATING+___tls_end__ = . ;} } .endjunk ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} : { /* end is deprecated, don't use it */ ${RELOCATING+PROVIDE (end = .);} ${RELOCATING+PROVIDE ( _end = .);} ${RELOCATING+ __end__ = .;} } .rsrc ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} : SUBALIGN(4) { ${R_RSRC} } .reloc ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} : { *(.reloc) } .stab ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.stab) } .stabstr ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.stabstr) } /* DWARF debug sections. Symbols in the DWARF debugging sections are relative to the beginning of the section. Unlike other targets that fake this by putting the section VMA at 0, the PE format will not allow it. */ /* DWARF 1.1 and DWARF 2. */ .debug_aranges ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_aranges) } .zdebug_aranges ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_aranges) } .debug_pubnames ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_pubnames) } .zdebug_pubnames ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_pubnames) } /* DWARF 2. */ .debug_info ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_info${RELOCATING+ .gnu.linkonce.wi.*}) } .zdebug_info ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_info${RELOCATING+ .zdebug.gnu.linkonce.wi.*}) } .debug_abbrev ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_abbrev) } .zdebug_abbrev ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_abbrev) } .debug_line ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_line) } .zdebug_line ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_line) } .debug_frame ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_frame*) } .zdebug_frame ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_frame*) } .debug_str ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_str) } .zdebug_str ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_str) } .debug_loc ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_loc) } .zdebug_loc ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_loc) } .debug_macinfo ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_macinfo) } .zdebug_macinfo ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_macinfo) } /* SGI/MIPS DWARF 2 extensions. */ .debug_weaknames ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_weaknames) } .zdebug_weaknames ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_weaknames) } .debug_funcnames ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_funcnames) } .zdebug_funcnames ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_funcnames) } .debug_typenames ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_typenames) } .zdebug_typenames ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_typenames) } .debug_varnames ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_varnames) } .zdebug_varnames ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_varnames) } /* DWARF 3. */ .debug_pubtypes ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_pubtypes) } .zdebug_pubtypes ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_pubtypes) } .debug_ranges ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_ranges) } .zdebug_ranges ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_ranges) } /* DWARF 4. */ .debug_types ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_types${RELOCATING+ .gnu.linkonce.wt.*}) } .zdebug_types ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_types${RELOCATING+ .gnu.linkonce.wt.*}) } /* DWARF 5. */ .debug_addr ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_addr) } .zdebug_addr ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_addr) } .debug_line_str ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_line_str) } .zdebug_line_str ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_line_str) } .debug_loclists ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_loclists) } .zdebug_loclists ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_loclists) } .debug_macro ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.debug_macro) } .zdebug_macro ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} : { *(.zdebug_macro) } .debug_names ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} ${RELOCATING+(NOLOAD)} :Lines 1–500 of 539. 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# Linker script for PE. # # Copyright (C) 2014-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, # are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright # notice and this notice are preserved. if test -z "${RELOCATEABLE_OUTPUT_FORMAT}"; then RELOCATEABLE_OUTPUT_FORMAT=${OUTPUT_FORMAT} fi # We can't easily and portably get an unquoted $ in a shell # substitution, so we do this instead. # Sorting of the .foo$* sections is required by the definition of # grouped sections in PE. # Sorting of the file names in R_IDATA and R_DIDAT is required by the # current implementation of dlltool (this could probably be changed to # use grouped sections instead). if test "${RELOCATING}"; then R_TEXT='*(SORT(.text$*))' if test "x$LD_FLAG" = "xauto_import" ; then R_DATA='*(SORT(.data$*)) *(.rdata) *(SORT(.rdata$*))' R_RDATA='' else R_DATA='*(SORT(.data$*))' R_RDATA='*(.rdata) *(SORT(.rdata$*))' fi R_IDATA234=' KEEP (SORT(*)(.idata$2)) KEEP (SORT(*)(.idata$3)) /* These zeroes mark the end of the import list. */ LONG (0); LONG (0); LONG (0); LONG (0); LONG (0); KEEP (SORT(*)(.idata$4))' R_IDATA5='KEEP (SORT(*)(.idata$5))' R_IDATA67=' KEEP (SORT(*)(.idata$6)) KEEP (SORT(*)(.idata$7))' R_DIDAT234=' __DELAY_IMPORT_DIRECTORY_start__ = .; KEEP (SORT(*)(.didat$2)) KEEP (SORT(*)(.didat$3)) __DELAY_IMPORT_DIRECTORY_end__ = .; /* These zeroes mark the end of the import list. */ . += (__DELAY_IMPORT_DIRECTORY_end__ - __DELAY_IMPORT_DIRECTORY_start__) ? 8*4 : 0; KEEP (SORT(*)(.didat$4))' R_DIDAT5='KEEP (SORT(*)(.didat$5))' R_DIDAT67=' KEEP (SORT(*)(.didat$6)) KEEP (SORT(*)(.didat$7))' R_CRT_XC='KEEP (*(SORT(.CRT$XC*))) /* C initialization */' R_CRT_XI='KEEP (*(SORT(.CRT$XI*))) /* C++ initialization */' R_CRT_XL='KEEP (*(SORT(.CRT$XL*))) /* TLS callbacks */' R_CRT_XP='KEEP (*(SORT(.CRT$XP*))) /* Pre-termination */' R_CRT_XT='KEEP (*(SORT(.CRT$XT*))) /* Termination */' R_CRT_XD='KEEP (*(SORT(.CRT$XD*))) /* Dynamic TLS Initializer */' R_TLS=' KEEP (*(.tls$AAA)) KEEP (*(.tls)) KEEP (*(.tls$)) KEEP (*(SORT(.tls$*))) KEEP (*(.tls$ZZZ))' R_RSRC=' KEEP (*(.rsrc)) KEEP (*(.rsrc$*))' else R_TEXT= R_DATA= R_RDATA='*(.rdata)' R_IDATA234= R_IDATA5= R_IDATA67= R_DIDAT234= R_DIDAT5= R_DIDAT67= R_CRT_XC= R_CRT_XI= R_CRT_XL= R_CRT_XP= R_CRT_XT= R_CRT_XD= R_TLS='*(.tls)' R_RSRC='*(.rsrc)' fi cat <<EOF /* Copyright (C) 2014-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this script, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. */ ${RELOCATING+OUTPUT_FORMAT(${OUTPUT_FORMAT})} ${RELOCATING-OUTPUT_FORMAT(${RELOCATEABLE_OUTPUT_FORMAT})} ${OUTPUT_ARCH+OUTPUT_ARCH(${OUTPUT_ARCH})} ${LIB_SEARCH_DIRS} SECTIONS { ${RELOCATING+/* Make the virtual address and file offset synced if the alignment is} ${RELOCATING+ lower than the target page size. */} ${RELOCATING+. = SIZEOF_HEADERS;} ${RELOCATING+. = ALIGN(__section_alignment__);} .text ${RELOCATING+ __image_base__ + ( __section_alignment__ < ${TARGET_PAGE_SIZE} ? . : __section_alignment__ )} : { ${RELOCATING+KEEP (*(SORT_NONE(.init)))} *(.text) ${R_TEXT} ${RELOCATING+ *(.text.*)} ${RELOCATING+ *(.gnu.linkonce.t.*)} ${RELOCATING+*(.glue_7t)} ${RELOCATING+*(.glue_7)} ${RELOCATING+KEEP (*(SORT_NONE(.fini)))} ${RELOCATING+/* ??? Why is .gcc_exc here? */} ${RELOCATING+ *(.gcc_exc)} ${RELOCATING+PROVIDE (etext = .);} ${RELOCATING+PROVIDE (_etext = .);} ${RELOCATING+ KEEP (*(.gcc_except_table))} } /* The Cygwin32 library uses a section to avoid copying certain data on fork. This used to be named ".data$nocopy". The linker used to include this between __data_start__ and __data_end__, but that breaks building the cygwin32 dll. Instead, we name the section ".data_cygwin_nocopy" and explicitly include it after __data_end__. */ .data ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} : { ${RELOCATING+__data_start__ = . ;} *(.data) ${RELOCATING+*(.data2)} ${R_DATA} KEEP(*(.jcr)) ${RELOCATING+__data_end__ = . ;} ${RELOCATING+*(.data_cygwin_nocopy)} } .rdata ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} : { ${R_RDATA} . = ALIGN(4); ${RELOCATING+__rt_psrelocs_start = .;} ${RELOCATING+KEEP(*(.rdata_runtime_pseudo_reloc))} ${RELOCATING+__rt_psrelocs_end = .;} /* read-only parts of .didat */ /* This cannot currently be handled with grouped sections. See pe.em:sort_sections. */ ${R_DIDAT234} ${R_DIDAT67} /* .ctors & .dtors */ ${CONSTRUCTING+ /* Note: we always define __CTOR_LIST__ and ___CTOR_LIST__ here, we do not PROVIDE them. This is because the ctors.o startup code in libgcc defines them as common symbols, with the expectation that they will be overridden by the definitions here. If we PROVIDE the symbols then they will not be overridden and global constructors will not be run. See PR 22762 for more details. This does mean that it is not possible for a user to define their own __CTOR_LIST__ and __DTOR_LIST__ symbols; if they do, the content from those variables are included but the symbols defined here silently take precedence. If they truly need to be redefined, a custom linker script will have to be used. (The custom script can just be a copy of this script with the PROVIDE() qualifiers added). In particular this means that ld -Ur does not work, because the proper __CTOR_LIST__ set by ld -Ur is overridden by a bogus __CTOR_LIST__ set by the final link. See PR 46. */ ___CTOR_LIST__ = .; __CTOR_LIST__ = .; LONG (-1); KEEP(*(.ctors)); KEEP(*(.ctor)); KEEP(*(SORT_BY_NAME(.ctors.*))); LONG (0); } ${CONSTRUCTING+ /* See comment about __CTOR_LIST__ above. 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See pe.em:sort_sections. */ ${R_IDATA234} ${RELOCATING+__IAT_start__ = .;} ${R_IDATA5} ${RELOCATING+__IAT_end__ = .;} ${R_IDATA67} } .didat ${RELOCATING+BLOCK(__section_alignment__)} : { /* This cannot currently be handled with grouped sections. See pe.em:sort_sections. */ ${R_DIDAT5} } /* Windows TLS expects .tls\$AAA to be at the start and .tls\$ZZZ to be at the end of section. 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