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Re: [PATCH RFC v2] Add support for non-contiguous memory regions
On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 12:02, Christophe Lyon
<christophe.lyon@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
I should probably have phrased that differently: I ran the testsuite
for arm and powerpc, no regression.
Do you have a case in mind that is not covered by the existing testsuite?
> > Simon