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Re: No error for Linker Section Overlapping

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: Deepen Mantri <Deepen dot Mantri at kpitcummins dot com>
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:01:15 +0930
Subject: Re: No error for Linker Section Overlapping
References: <20070421010118.GL6840@bubble.grove.modra.org> <B9D27836A814694B95A1C294F714576684F791@sohm.kpit.com>

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:25:15PM +0530, Deepen Mantri wrote:
> Could you please explain me in detail, what could be the other
> consequences
> of the modifications done? 

Changing the lma to vma relationship will put .bss into a different
load segment.  Usually you wouldn't want that to happen, because it
needlessly creates a new segment.

You do apparently want that to happen.  Please just add
"AT(ADDR(.bss))" to your .bss output section description.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

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