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Re: ld lma assignment

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:04:15AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> 1. It doesn't check if there are overlapping LMAs when warning moving
> dot backwards.

That's why it is a warning rather than an error.  I think anyone setting
a section VMA to a value before previous sections ought to also set
section LMA.

> 2. I don't think we should change lma just because dot is moved
> backwards. We can change the affected linker scripts if they can be
> made backward compatible.

Well, yes, I don't really like the exception to the rule.  Are there
released linux kernels that need the old default LMA for their linker
scripts to work?

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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