Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 May 2008 23:16:02 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.26-rc1 on x86: ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.text' |
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On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 01:25:53PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > >The resulting kernel hasn't broken on me yet, however. > > > >A search through the LKML archives showed that this was reported > >for 2.6.25-rc3-mm1, but I couldn't find any discussion about it > >after that: > > > ><http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120470303728010&w=2> > > > >The .config causing this warning is available in > ><http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/ale/config-2.6.26-rc1> > > > > This is because the organization of the file was changed, and the linker > script wasn't changed to match: > > SECTIONS > { > . = HEADER_OFFSET; > .header : { > *(.header) > } > > . = 0; > .text : { > *(.text*) > } > > This is crap; the sections should be listed *in order* so the linker can > warn properly when something bad happens. > > The code should be correct; reorganizing the linker script correctly > should fix the problem.
I need Pavel to comment on this. Why we start with . equal 0x3f00 and then later as . equals 0x0000 I dunno. I did not look into this part of the code back then - but I should anyway have seen this flaw in the linker script :-(
Sam
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