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Re: Sections in RedBoot

From: Nick Garnett <nickg at redhat dot com>
To: "Agarwal, Lomesh" <lomesh dot agarwal at intel dot com>
Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: 31 May 2002 11:24:17 +0100
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Sections in RedBoot
References: <01BDB7EEF8D4D3119D95009027AE999512F6602E@fmsmsx33.fm.intel.com>

"Agarwal, Lomesh" <lomesh.agarwal@intel.com> writes:

> Can someone tell me why does RedBoot has following sections:
> Fini, rodata1, fixup, gcc_except_table, fixed_vectors
> I don't use any of these. So, I removed all of them. But when I compile
> linker complains about missing gcc_except_table section. Error line is:
> ld: LOADADDR uses undefined section .gcc_except_table
> How can I remove gcc_except_table section also?
> 

While you may not use them, the compiler might. These are all
compiler/linker generated sections and must be present. If nothing
gets allocated to them they just end up empty. It costs nothing to
leave them where they are.

-- 
Nick Garnett, eCos Kernel Architect
Red Hat, Cambridge, UK


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  - From: Agarwal, Lomesh

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