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Re: PATCH: Add -Ttext-segment ADDR to ELF linker
- From: John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 10:46:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Add -Ttext-segment ADDR to ELF linker
- References: <6dc9ffc80901131214n6602a120n3d621f49b8facdfc@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: John David Anglin <dave dot anglin at nrc-cnrc dot gc dot ca>
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, H.J. Lu wrote:
> I don't think we should take this risk to potentially break existing
> applications. Here is a patch to add a new switch -Ttext-segment.
> I can reuse -Ttext and update linker tests if it is preferred.
This change breaks glibc builds on parisc. The glibc build attempts
to modify the default linker script with a sed script to provide the
symbol _begin used by the dynamic loader.
Dave
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