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Re: ARM crt.. files

On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 01:13:40PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> As you can see in the patch I posted, I took another approach.  That is, I
> do ld -r --verbose and massage the output to produce a linker script that
> is a modified version of the default ld -r script; this gets the =FILL on
> the .init and .fini sections for the right nop pattern, and then ALIGN in
> the linker script can do the right thing.

Unfortunately, =FILL only fills with a two-byte value, making it
useless for most RISC machines.  I know that both Sparc and Alpha
will fail.  We must let the assembler do this.


r~
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