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From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Program section alignment on MIPS
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070327094705.GG23564@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17928.27966.93000.486100@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

Paul Koning wrote:
> I've noticed a change between binutils 2.17 and older versions (2.14
> at least; don't know for sure when this arrived).  In 2.14, the
> program sections were aligned 2**12, which make sense given the MIPS
> page size.  In 2.17 they are aligned 2**16, which I don't want and is
> causing trouble.  

The architecture allows variable page sizes between 1 k and 256 MB (not
all of them need to be implemented in a specific CPU). Some MIPS-based
machines use now 16 k pages for Linux. 64 k is a reasonable upper bound
for the default value, it is overridable via -z max-page-size /
-z common-page-size.

> The biggest problem is that I can't find out where this number comes
> from, nor how to change it.  Looking through the docs for "align"
> turns up assorted things, but none that seem relevant and none that
> help.

Grep for MAXPAGESIZE.


Thiemo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-27  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-27  5:40 Paul Koning
2007-03-27  8:30 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-03-27 11:20 ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]

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