From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <binutils-return-36346-listarch-binutils=sources.redhat.com@sources.redhat.com>
Received: (qmail 24082 invoked by alias); 5 Nov 2004 13:26:46 -0000
Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Subscribe: <mailto:binutils-subscribe@sources.redhat.com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/>
List-Post: <mailto:binutils@sources.redhat.com>
List-Help: <mailto:binutils-help@sources.redhat.com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com
Received: (qmail 24033 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2004 13:26:41 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO smtp005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com) (217.12.11.36)
  by sourceware.org with SMTP; 5 Nov 2004 13:26:41 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO Kindrogan) (compxsuk@81.136.112.227 with login)
  by smtp005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2004 13:26:39 -0000
Reply-To: <jbeniston@compxs.com>
From: "Jon Beniston" <jbeniston@compxs.com>
To: "'Dave Korn'" <dk@artimi.com>,
	<binutils@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: RE: MEMORY commands in link scripts
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 13:26:00 -0000
Organization: CompXs
Message-ID: <001001c4c33b$12da7510$0bbda8c0@Kindrogan>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In-Reply-To: <NUTMEGmjpD3zCParqjP00000501@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00101.txt.bz2

>=20
>   Alas no.  Although the documentation suggests this should=20
> be possible, it isn't.  See

Cheers for that explaination.

I still think it might be useful have ORIGIN() and LENGTH() functions. If I
were to create a patch to implement this, is it likely to be accepted? Would
overloading the  ADDR() and SIZEOF() functions be more approriate?

Cheers,
Jon