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Re: [PATCH 0/9] ELF support for targets with octets_per_byte>1
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Christian Eggers <ceggers at gmx dot de>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 08:29:12 +1030
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] ELF support for targets with octets_per_byte>1
- References: <20191116232130.14278-1-ceggers@gmx.de>
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:21:21AM +0100, Christian Eggers wrote:
> This series reverts (most) of the old patches and introduces the concept of
> "octet sections". Within these sections, everything is addressed in octets
> instead of bytes. In this way also hand crafted DWARF sections in unit tests
> will work (already tested for SDMA (WIP, nearly finished)) and this concept
> should also do the job for targets with more than 2 octets per byte. "Normal"
> targets with one octet per byte should not be affected, only the output of
> objdump will show the new "OCTET" section flag.
Good, this makes sense to me. More comments on individual patches.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM