This is the mail archive of the
binutils@sourceware.org
mailing list for the binutils project.
Re: [PATCH RFC v2] Add support for non-contiguous memory regions
On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 11:42, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 11:22:31AM +0100, Christophe Lyon wrote:
>
> > Since it changes the processing to allow several output sections to
> > match, maybe --enable-non-contiguous-regions is not good although it
> > describes the original need.
> > Would --multiple-output-sections be better? (actually, there's still
> > only one output in the end....)
>
> Wait, this option means that if an input section is listed multiple times,
> it isn't duplicated like it used to be?
>
> That might be a problem for people who are building overlays for banked
> memory, or to conserve RAM.
>
I haven't checked that. Is there an existing testcase?
> Simon