[PATCH] Add support for non-contiguous memory regions

[Tamar Christina]

Hi Christophe,

Did you forget to attach the patches perhaps? I don't see any attachments.

Cheers,
Tamar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: binutils-owner@sourceware.org <binutils-owner@sourceware.org>
> On Behalf Of Christophe Lyon
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2020 12:34 PM
> To: binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
> Subject: [PATCH] Add support for non-contiguous memory regions
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is a follow-up to
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-11/msg00402.html
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2020-01/msg00064.html
> and
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2020-02/msg00037.html
> 
> Changes between v3 and v4:
> * I ran the tests on more targets (those that have xxx_build_one_stub:
> avr csky hppa mc68ch11 metag nios2 ppc aarch64 m68hc11 m68hc12)
> * this made me update the generic test (match addresses more lazily to cope
> with 64 bits outputs, ignore symbol table whose order depends on the
> target), and skip it for the targets that don't support -mlittle-endian. Is there
> a more generic way of doing this? (for sure, there are other targets that don't
> support that option but that I haven't tested)
> * I updated xxx_build_one_stub similarly to what I needed for arm, although
> I didn't write specific tests
> 
> The changes between v2 and v3:
> * added some doc/NEWS
> * fixed bugs detected when running the testsuite with the option activated
> by default. In particular, I've noticed and documented the incompatibility
> with INSERT (or rather, it's likely to cause problems, but depends on the
> actual linker scripts contents), because my new option breaks the
> assumption of the parsing & processing order assumed by INSERT.
> * added new option --enable-non-contiguous-regions-warnings which
> activates some warnings to help understand why the behaviour changes in
> some cases
> 
> There are 4 patches, to hopefully make review/comments easier; I can
> squash them at commit time if this is preferable.
> * patch1: is the main (code) patch
> * patch2: generic test
> * patch3: arm tests
> * patch4: powerpc test
> 
> OK?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Christophe