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Re: [Patch] ld: check for address space overflow
> On 15 Mar 2017, at 02:11, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 02:56:18PM +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> * testsuite/ld-checks/checks.exp (overflow_check): Disable for
>> non-elf targets.
>
> OK.
Thanks, committed.
> I'm going to commit the following too. h8300 and ip2k targets
> use a 16-bit address cpu by default, so hit the address wrap check
> (more than once) on the 64k section test.
>
> * testsuite/ld-elf/sec64k.exp: Don't run on h8300 and ip2k.
Thank you for the head-up.
Maybe the overflow check should also check that the length is not larger than the address space (otherwise it could have missed these h8300 and ip2k cases), but I think this is a too artificial case.
Tristan.