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Re: [RFC] Allow linker scripts to specify multiple output regions for an output section?
- From: Christophe Lyon <christophe dot lyon at linaro dot org>
- To: dvalin at internode dot on dot net, Tejas Belagod <Tejas dot Belagod at arm dot com>
- Cc: binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim dot kuvyrkov at linaro dot org>, Peter Smith <peter dot smith at linaro dot org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:58:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Allow linker scripts to specify multiple output regions for an output section?
- References: <20170309120639.GF3472@ratatosk> <593A92AB.6020609@foss.arm.com> <20170609133536.GA3343@ratatosk>
Hi!
On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 at 15:35, Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> wrote:
>
> On 09.06.17 13:20, Tejas Belagod wrote:
> > > > I agree that replacing the first-match rule with a subsequent match rule
> > > > controlled by a command-line switch is much much lower implementation cost.
> > > > It will be interesting to hear views of a maintainer about the preferred
> > > > approach.
> ...
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just wanted to give you the latest on this. Unfortunately, I have suspended
> > working on this feature for the foreseeable future owing to a shift in
> > priorities. Will update if there is a change in circumstances.
>
> Ah, pity, but life is the art of the possible, not the ideal.
> Will look forward to hearing of any resumption, should it occur.
>
We have received requests to support non-contiguous memory regions in
the BFD linker, so it seems it is time to resurrect this thread :-)
IIUC, Erik made a proposal that seems simpler to implement than the
initial one in
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2017-03/msg00020.html
Tejas, on your side, do you have any news about this project? (ideally
in terms of implementation, but updated specs would be good too)
Thanks,
Christophe
> Erik