Re: Change in .ld syntax or a bug?

[Andrew Lunn <andrew.lunn@ascom.ch>]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:56:47AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:33:22PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:50:26PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 02:17:08PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > > It looks like ld is happy with sections which explicit set there
> > > > address, eg .vectors and .data, but sections which just follow on from
> > > > the previous section it is not happy with and seems to put them
> > > > outside of memory.
> > > > 
> > > > Has there recently been a change in syntax? Or is this a bug?
> > > 
> > > A bug, I suspect.  Do you have anything in .vectors?
> > 
> > Humm, interesting. No, its empty according to --print-map.
> > 
> > I edited target.ld and removed the .vectors section and gave .text a
> > fixed start address. It then linked happily. 
> > 
> > So it looks like ld cannot correctly follow on from an empty section.
> 
> Would you mind checking whether mainline CVS has this bug?  If you find
> it does, I'll see about fixing the problem.

I just tried anoncvs trunk and it has the same problem.

  Thanks
    Andrew