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Re: Any MIPS experts?
- From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:37:05 -0400
- Subject: Re: Any MIPS experts?
- References: <SERRANOKrUV0hCLwHc9000001af@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Thursday 22 September 2005 09:14 am, Dave Korn wrote:
> PR702 is about object file bloat introduced in recent binutils versions
> owing to the alignment of one of the sections having been increased from
> 4kB->64kB; the linker is apparently placing explicit padding in the output
> files. We've been trying to fix this on the crossgcc list[*] without
> success, having tried patches to both gcc[**] and gas[***], and I haven't
> been able to track down any discussion of this issue from the mailing list
> archives.
we use this patch in uClibc:
http://www.uclibc.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/buildroot/toolchain/binutils/2.16.1/400-mips-ELF_MAXPAGESIZE-4K.patch?rev=10552&view=markup
-mike