SDAREL output sections

Momchil Velikov velco@fadata.bg
Sun Feb 18 15:07:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Geoff" == Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:

>> Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
>> From: Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>
>> Date: 19 Feb 2001 00:50:26 +0200
>> 
>> Well, then, how about changing the checks to test the input section
>> instead of the output one and letting the linker report relocation
>> overflows if the input section is inappropriately output ?

Geoff> Because this would prevent people from overriding the test by folding,
Geoff> say, the .data section into .sdata.

The test, as it stands now, prevents people (well, me) from folding the
.sdata section into .data.

Regards,
-velco



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