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Re: PATCH BFD section load page support
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
- Subject: Re: PATCH BFD section load page support
- From: Timothy Wall <twall at tiac dot net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:00:33 -0500
- CC: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>, twall at domesolutions dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200001142241.RAA08373@frob.com>
The "memory page" function is implemented as an extension to the MEMORY
functionality in the linker. Each memory section is optionally assigned a
page.
I originally looked at using OVERLAY, but it didn't fit appropriately; I'll
look again to see if my perspective has changed.
T.
Roland McGrath wrote:
> It sounds to me like the OVERLAY and/or MEMORY functionality ought to
> somehow cover this, though perhaps it does not exactly match the TI case.
> But I think it makes more sense to widen those concepts as necessary
> rather than introducing a new one.