x86-64 large data sections updated
H. J. Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Wed Jun 15 13:44:00 GMT 2005
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:15:46AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
>
> I am not sure if any existing ELF target handles the processor
> specific common SHN_XXX correctly. You may need some new infrastructure
> to support it properly. I will see if I can do something about it.
>
Take m32r for example,
bash-3.00$ cat x.s
.scomm foo,4,4
bash-3.00$ ./as-new -o x.o x.s
bash-3.00$ ../binutils/readelf -s x.o
Symbol table '.symtab' contains 6 entries:
Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
0: 00000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
1: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 1
2: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 2
3: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 3
4: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 4
5: 00000002 4 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT PRC[0xff00] foo
bash-3.00$ ../ld/ld-new -r x.o
bash-3.00$ ../binutils/readelf -s a.out
Symbol table '.symtab' contains 9 entries:
Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
0: 00000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
1: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 1
2: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 2
3: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 3
4: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 4
5: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 5
6: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 6
7: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 7
8: 00000001 4 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT COM foo
A symbol in SHN_M32R_SCOMMON winds up in SHN_COMMON. We need to provide
a way to support processor/OS specific common indices.
H.J.
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