[PATCH 0/9] ELF support for targets with octets_per_byte>1
Alan Modra
amodra@gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 21:59:00 GMT 2019
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:21:21AM +0100, Christian Eggers wrote:
> This series reverts (most) of the old patches and introduces the concept of
> "octet sections". Within these sections, everything is addressed in octets
> instead of bytes. In this way also hand crafted DWARF sections in unit tests
> will work (already tested for SDMA (WIP, nearly finished)) and this concept
> should also do the job for targets with more than 2 octets per byte. "Normal"
> targets with one octet per byte should not be affected, only the output of
> objdump will show the new "OCTET" section flag.
Good, this makes sense to me. More comments on individual patches.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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