Re: Accessing section attributes from assembly (or C)

[Ola Liljedahl <olli at enea dot se>]

MRI == Microtec
A cross compiler tool chain for embedded systems popular enough for
gcc (or is it the binutils assembler) to actually have an mri
compatibility mode. But probably the compatibility does not stretch
long enough to handle such weird relocations.
--
	Ola Liljedahl

Michael Sokolov wrote:
> 
> Christopher Bahns <chris@bahns.com> wrote:
> 
> > "            DC.L  (tables1_size + tables2_size)\n"
> 
> Sorry, the UNIX model of an object module, which the GNU toolchain follows just
> like any other UNIX toolchain, does not allow referencing things like the sum
> of two external symbols.
> 
> > It seems that MRI can do this, but GNU
> > (as far as I know) cannot.
> 
> It isn't GNU that invented this limitation, it's the UNIX way of doing things,
> of which GNU is just one implementation.
> 
> As you are making comparisons with something called "MRI", you may want to
> explain what it is you are making comparisons with. To me MRI doesn't mean
> anything other than Magnetic Resonance Imaging. It seems like you are talking
> about some other compiler/assembler/linker toolchain. What sort of toolchain is
> it? Is it used by some proprietary version of UNIX, or is it a specialized
> embedded cross-toolchain, or what?
> 
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