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I'm facing a peculiar problem (might be a feature, don't know) where linker changes the name of user defined section. "GNU ld version 2.13.1" Cross-compiled for MIPS on x86. I define section in assembly source as: .section .new_section,"ax",@progbits I assemble [1] and then link with 2 diff methods, with my own linker script[2] and with section address in command line[3] [1] mips-elf-as test.s -o test.o [2] mips-elf-ld -T m1.lk test.o -o test_wls.exe OR [3] mips-elf-ld --section-start .new_section=0x8000 test.o -o test_cmdline.exe I case of command [3] I see that linker adds the suffix ".1" to the my new section name: (and does *not* place it at the address I want) ------------------------------------------------ test_cmdline.exe: file format elf32-bigmips Sections: Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn 0 .new_section 00000000 00008000 00008000 00001024 2**0 CONTENTS ------ snip -----> CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE 4 .new_section.1 0000000c 00400018 00400018 00001018 2**0 ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE Whereas this is NOT the case when I use the linker script: ------------------------------------------------ test_wls.exe: file format elf32-bigmips Sections: Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn 0 .new_section 0000000c 00000800 00000800 00001800 2**0 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE Additional note: I notice this happen *ONLY* when I set the "a" bit for section, i.e. when I have section defined as .section .new_section,"x",@progbits linker doesn't play with names, but then that section is not disassembled with 'objdump -D' option! In short my requirement is I want to define a section that holds code (ALLOC, CODE bit set) and should be able to specify the section start address on *command line* I looked through manual and web, but in vain. Am I missing something? I'm attaching the files I used, please help. TIA. Regards, Atul P Talesara --------------------------------------------- Everyone wants to save the world, But no one wants to help mumma with dishes! ---------------------------------------------
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