There are a number of different situations when symbols are requested to be ordered in the --symbol-ordering-file that cannot be ordered for some reason. To assist with identifying these symbols, and either tidying up the order file, or the inputs, a number of warnings have been added. As some users may find these warnings unhelpful, due to how they use the symbol ordering file, a switch has also been added to disable these warnings.
The cases where we now warn are:
- Entries in the order file that don't correspond to any symbol in the input
- Undefined symbols
- Absolute symbols
- Symbols imported from shared objects
- Symbols that are discarded, due to e.g. --gc-sections or /DISCARD/ linker script sections
- Multiple of the same entry in the order file