Getting MAXPAGESIZE from ELF_MAXPAGESIZE
H. J. Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Sun May 22 05:54:00 GMT 2005
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 09:50:02PM -0400, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
>
> > I found a need to change ELF_MAXPAGESIZE at the command line. I can
> > add a new option like -z page-size=128M. The problem is I have to
> > update the linker script also. I'd like to modify the linker to
> > get MAXPAGESIZE from ELF_MAXPAGESIZE in bfd. MAXPAGESIZE will be
> > treated as a special read only symbol like '.'. At least, we don't
> > need to set MAXPAGESIZE in linker.
>
> I think it might be nicer if we didn't introduce yet another magic
> symbol name in the linker script language. How about making it a
> function: MAXPAGESIZE()?
>
> What should it return for a non-ELF target?
Since that will be ELF specific, how about adding ELF_CONSTANT (xxx)
where xxx can be MAXPAGESIZE, ....?
H.J.
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