Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:47:20 +1000 | From | Greg Ungerer <> | Subject | Re: common RODATA in vmlinux.lds.h (2.5.59) |
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Hiya Miles,
Miles Bader wrote: > Yeah, the new generic RODATA stuff is way broken on the v850 too. > > Besides the over-eager use of sections, it also assumes that C symbol > names map one-to-one with `linker symbol' names, which isn't true with > the default v850 compiler. > > Here's my local rewrite of include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, which > works on the v850, and seems like it should be usable by other systems > as well. > > It does two things: [snip] > > What do you think of this?
I like it. Looks like an ideal solution, keeps a bunch of stuff common, but is a lot more flexible in terms of output sections (and their regions) .
> [To be honest, I think the stuff with `LOAD_OFFSET' is a bit of a waste; > it seems cleaner to just have archs define their own sections as > appropriate, and use RODATA_CONTENTS directly -- it's the input sections > and related symbols that are always changing (and so better centralized), > after all, not the output sections.]
Agree 100%.
Regards Greg
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