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Re: Minor feature for ld

From: "Charles Lepple" <clepple at ghz dot cc>
To: <pgonzalez at bluel dot com>
Cc: <drow at mvista dot com>, <dj at delorie dot com>, <ian at airs dot com>, <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:38:26 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Minor feature for ld
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020903113750.01bd63f0@emmet.jeffsys.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20020903113750.01bd63f0@emmet.jeffsys.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20020903131533.01c21728@emmet.jeffsys.net> <20020903182308.GA12884@nevyn.them.org> <200209031828.g83IS9m25627@envy.delorie.com>

DJ Delorie said:
> Watch out for leading underscores if your platform needs them, of
> course.

To add to this, you may want to compile a C version once without an
absolute address but with debugging enabled, then use the resulting
assembly (the .s file, obtained from -save-temps, or by stopping the
compiler after translation to assembly) together with an absolute address
assignment as DJ suggested.

This way, you find out whether or not your plaform needs underscores, and
you also find out what debugging pseudo-ops are necessary so that your
bitfields show up normally in gdb. Otherwise, gdb will most likely be
confused about the type of your absolute-address symbols.

-- 
Charles Lepple <clepple@ghz.cc>
http://www.ghz.cc/charles/

References:
- Minor feature for ld
  - From: Pete Gonzalez
- Re: Minor feature for ld
  - From: Pete Gonzalez
- Re: Minor feature for ld
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: Minor feature for ld
  - From: DJ Delorie

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