Re: RFA: Add more read-only sections to the sparc cygwin linker scripts.

[Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>]

Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
>   Running the gcc testsuite for a sparc-elf toolchain built from
>   recent sources will produce lots of failures with this linker error
>   message:
>   
>    error: no memory region specified for loadable section
>    `.rodata.str1.8'
>
>   The fix seems to be add this section (and others like it) to the
>   cygmon linker scripts, as in the patch below.  Any objections to
>   applying it ?

No, please go ahead.  Thanks.

-- Jeff J.

> Cheers
>   Nick
>
> libgloss/ChangeLog
> 2007-02-14  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
>
> 	* sparc/cygmon.ld.src: Link .rodata.* input sections into .text
> 	output section.
> 	* sparc/cygmon-sparc64-ld.src: Likewise.
>
> Index: libgloss/sparc/cygmon.ld.src
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/libgloss/sparc/cygmon.ld.src,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -c -3 -p -r1.1 cygmon.ld.src
> *** libgloss/sparc/cygmon.ld.src	17 Mar 2000 22:48:52 -0000	1.1
> --- libgloss/sparc/cygmon.ld.src	14 Feb 2007 17:29:08 -0000
> *************** SECTIONS
> *** 91,96 ****
> --- 91,97 ----
>       *(.init)
>       *(.lit)
>       *(.rodata)
> +     *(.rodata.*)
>       *(.shdata)
>       *(.eh_frame)
>       *(.gnu.linkonce.t*)
> Index: libgloss/sparc/cygmon-sparc64-ld.src
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/libgloss/sparc/cygmon-sparc64-ld.src,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -c -3 -p -r1.1 cygmon-sparc64-ld.src
> *** libgloss/sparc/cygmon-sparc64-ld.src	17 Mar 2000 22:48:52 -0000	1.1
> --- libgloss/sparc/cygmon-sparc64-ld.src	14 Feb 2007 17:29:08 -0000
> *************** SECTIONS
> *** 87,92 ****
> --- 87,93 ----
>       *(.init)
>       *(.lit)
>       *(.rodata)
> +     *(.rodata.*)
>       *(.shdata)
>       *(.eh_frame)
>       *(.gnu.linkonce.t*)
>
>