Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:29:24 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: vmlinux.lds.S Distinguish absolute symbols |
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> > > I recall that when Kai Germaschewski long time ago started the > > unification of the vmlinux.lds files some people had boot problems > > exactly because the label was defined inside the section and therefore > > ld caused it to have another value as if it was placed outside the > > section. > > I remember seeing something like that. I don't know if those problems > apply to a modern ld, but it is certainly worth looking into. I was googling a bit with no luck. But apperantly looking at include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h I'm utterly wrong. It was the other way around that caused problems.
Placing the labels outside {} sometimes gave an unaligned start address, whereas placing the label inside {} gave the correct address. At his also makes sense. If ld decide to align a section then it will do so after a label defined outside the section.
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