ld lma assignment

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Wed Aug 23 02:58:00 GMT 2006


On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:46:48AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:03:44PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > Fixes doco for this change, and warns on backward movement of VMA
> > unless accompanied with an explicit LMA assignment.  I guess I should
> > have added the news item when I committed the first patch to raise
> > awareness of the change in default lma.  Apologies for that, I wasn't
> > trying to slip a change in under the radar!  I still feel it's a good
> > change for 2.18, one that shouldn't affect too many scripts, and those
> > that it does are easily fixed.
> 
> I tried AT (.). It seems to generate different outputs comparing with
> the old linker.

AT(ADDR(section_name)) is probably better.  AT(.) ignores section
alignment requirements.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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