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Re: Load addresses for ELF program headers on ARM
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 09:43:27PM -0500, Matt Fischer wrote:
>> However, when I do this, it creates one gigantic segment which has
>> both sections at their relocation addresses, and zero-fills the 200MB
>> or so in between them. ?It seems like the linker is not correctly
>> respecting load addresses when it tries to fit sections into segments.
>> ?Is that something that can be gotten around somehow?
>
> This is a 2.20 bug. ?With current mainline you'll get a warning
> ?section `DATA' can't be allocated in segment 0
> but ld will place DATA immediately after TEXT in the segment. ?The
> warning is because the VMA for DATA is outside the virtual addresses
> covered by your program header. ?(The warning should probably say
> something to that effect rather than "can't be allocated" when the
> section *is* allocated there.)
Ah, excellent. Ok, so I'll just patch the binaries for now, and then
pick up that change once it's available. Dan, any idea when that fix
will make its way into Sourcery Lite?
--Matt