Unfortunately some consumers of our .o files produced with -r expect
only one section symbol per section. That is true of at least of go's
own linker.
Combining them is a somewhat convoluted process. We have to create a
symbol for every section since we don't know which ones will be
needed. The relocation sections also have to be written first to
handle the Elf_Rel addend.
I did consider a completely different approach:
We could remove the -r special case of relocation sections when
reading. We would instead have a copyRelocs function that is used
instead of scanRelocs. It would create a DynamicReloc for each
relocation and a RelocationSection for each input relocation section.
A complication of such change is that DynamicReloc would have to take
a section index and a input section instead of a symbol since with
-emit-relocs some DynamicReloc would hold relocations referring to the
dynamic symbol table and other to the static symbol table.
That would be a pretty big change, and if we do it it is probably
better to do it as a refactoring.
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