Re: PATCH BFD section load page support

[Timothy Wall <twall at tiac dot net>]

It's more generally a "memory page".  I named it "load_page" because that
more specifically referred to how it is actually used by TI COFF, and at the
time, I needed to remind myself.

As a "memory page", it is indeed "general" information (there are many DSPs
which use multiple memory pages).  In the linker, I simply called the field
"page" where it was added to the output section structures.

Tim

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

>    Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:46:01 +0000
>    From: Timothy Wall <twall@domesolutions.com>
>
>    The linker manipulates sections based on the load page.  It would be
>    rather difficult to conditionally handle load page directives in linker
>    scripts only if the output type is a variation of TI COFF.
>
> We might be able to add a new BFD entry point, or simply a new BFD
> function along the lines of bfd_get_gp_size, or the various weird
> functions declared near the bottom of bfd-in.h.  That would be cheaper
> overall than adding a field to asection.
>
> Can you describe what the linker does based on load pages?
>
> The general principle of BFD is to put general information in generic
> structures and specific information in specific structures.  The load
> page sounds to me like specific information, so I would prefer to keep
> it out of the generic structures.
>
> Ian