The .discard/.discard.* sections are used to generate intermediate
results for the assembler (effectively "test assembly".) The output
is waste and should not be retained.
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-psizrnant8x3nrhbgvq2vekr@git.kernel.org
. = ALIGN(0x100);
.text : { *(.text*) } :text =0x90909090
+
+ /DISCARD/ : {
+ *(.discard)
+ *(.discard.*)
+ }
}
/*