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Re: elf->srec link vs string merging
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:51:23 +0930
- Subject: Re: elf->srec link vs string merging
- References: <200909220449.n8M4nnns002536@greed.delorie.com>
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:49:49AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> When a *-elf linker is asked to output SREC instead of ELF, and the
> objects have merged string sections, the SREC output uses the
> pre-relaxed section size, not the post-relax section size. Verified
> with i386-elf and m32c-elf. Is this a known limitation of the linker,
> or something we should look into fixing?
It's just that the generic linker does not support string merge.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM