From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Deepen Mantri <Deepen.Mantri@kpitcummins.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: No error for Linker Section Overlapping
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070421010118.GL6840@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B9D27836A814694B95A1C294F71457667A5E7A@sohm.kpit.com>
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:12:23PM +0530, Deepen Mantri wrote:
> 1. Error prints the LMA addresses instead of VMA addresses when VMAs of
> the sections overlap. This might create confusion.
VMA == LMA except when using overlays or when assigning LMA in the
linker script. I don't think the error message is worth changing.
> 2. Also the allocation of the LMA address to non-loadable sections
> (such as ".bss" section) is not prevented.
Why is this a problem? Changing this as you have done will break
other code in the linker, eg. _bfd_elf_map_sections_to_segments.
--
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-21 1:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-12 13:50 Deepen Mantri
2007-04-14 1:42 ` Alan Modra
2007-04-17 13:17 ` Deepen Mantri
2007-04-18 4:10 ` Alan Modra
2007-04-19 17:05 ` Deepen Mantri
2007-04-21 5:01 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2007-04-23 15:08 ` Deepen Mantri
2007-04-23 15:32 ` Alan Modra
2007-04-24 10:59 ` Deepen Mantri
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