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...atch. > >Thanks! > >Cheers, >Robert Hi Robert, current support of SHF_LINK_ORDER in LLD is poor for ICF case. ICF is not aware of link order dependencies when do its job. And I think ARM target is assumed to be the only user of SHF_LINK_ORDER atm. You might want to take a look at D38180 which tried to improve the situation (and I believe would address the issue) but was not landed. It also probably shows the expected behavior. If we have section A and B, where B is linked with A, and also sections C and D where D is linked to C, and A == C, ICF should only merge A and C when linke...