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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Frederic RISS <frederic.riss@st.com>
Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>,
		Steven Johnson <sjohnson@sakuraindustries.com>,
		gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Problems with startup code symbols (Copious warnings)
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060620123712.GA20631@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150806737.2480.71.camel@crx549.cro.st.com>

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 02:32:17PM +0200, Frederic RISS wrote:
> Of course. But I don't see any non-embedded binary with a section loaded
> at NULL.

Probably...

> And I don't see much embedded bootcode needing linkonce
> sections.

... but not probably.

Typical for a lot of embedded devices I've worked with is to have a
single massive ELF image, including boot code and the entire remainder
of the image, and to use C++ for most of it.  I've definitely worked
with images where this wouldn't help.

> > Is that an improvement?  I guess so.
> 
> It's certainly better than the current HAS_RELOCS check.

Yes, I think so.  Want to do it, anybody?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-20 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-08  7:23 Steven Johnson
2006-06-08  9:06 ` Jim Blandy
2006-06-08 12:25   ` Steven Johnson
2006-06-08 23:10     ` Steven Johnson
2006-06-15  0:12     ` Jim Blandy
2006-06-15  7:33       ` Jim Blandy
2006-06-19  9:36         ` Frederic RISS
2006-06-20 12:23           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-20 12:33             ` Frederic RISS
2006-06-20 12:56               ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-06-20 13:09                 ` Frederic RISS
2006-06-20 20:17                   ` Steven Johnson
2006-06-20 23:35                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-21  8:54                       ` Frederic RISS
2006-06-21 14:44                         ` Steven Johnson
2006-06-21 15:28                         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-19 10:00         ` Steven Johnson

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