PING Re: PATCH: Automatically apply an address offset when linking between XGATE and M68HC1x cores.

[Sean Keys]

Hi,

I know a release is around the corner, please consider this friendly ping.

James, it has been a few days and a few more :-)  Anything I can do to help?

Thanks,
Sean

On 07/15/2012 01:36 PM, Sean Keys wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> It's basically the same concept. Although, if I recall correctly your 
> code only applies an offset, when linking M68HC1X symbols against 
> XGATE relocations. XGATE code generated using the M68HC1x assembler 
> won't be affected, including the "--xgate-ramoffset" option.  The test 
> suite yields the same results with this patch applied.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
> It only applies when you use the XGATE tools.  The --xgate-ramoffset
>
> On 07/15/2012 01:04 PM, James Murray wrote:
>> On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 20:23 -0700, Sean Keys wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Users of XGATE and M68HC1x Binutils have requested that the linker 
>>> apply
>>> an appropriate offset for one another, when linking between the two
>>> cores.  This  offset is only applied when the address is within "shared
>>> RAM".  If the address falls outside this area, no offset is applied and
>>> a warning is emitted.
>> How does this compare, interact (or conflict?) with the existing
>> --xgate-ramoffset option?
>>
>> (I won't have time to check the source for a few days.)
>>
>> regards
>>
>> James
>
>