From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25111 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2007 15:31:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 25102 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Apr 2007 15:31:22 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from omta02ps.mx.bigpond.com (HELO omta02ps.mx.bigpond.com) (144.140.83.154) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:31:20 +0100 Received: from oaamta02ps.mx.bigpond.com ([144.136.165.71]) by omta02ps.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20070423153115.UJJK7838.omta02ps.mx.bigpond.com@oaamta02ps.mx.bigpond.com>; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:31:15 +0000 Received: from bubble.grove.modra.org ([144.136.165.71]) by oaamta02ps.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20070423153115.AGR11330.oaamta02ps.mx.bigpond.com@bubble.grove.modra.org>; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:31:15 +0000 Received: by bubble.grove.modra.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 7A5B3312948; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:01:15 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:32:00 -0000 From: Alan Modra To: Deepen Mantri Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: No error for Linker Section Overlapping Message-ID: <20070423153115.GD10537@bubble.grove.modra.org> Mail-Followup-To: Deepen Mantri , binutils@sources.redhat.com References: <20070421010118.GL6840@bubble.grove.modra.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-04/txt/msg00313.txt.bz2 On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:25:15PM +0530, Deepen Mantri wrote: > Could you please explain me in detail, what could be the other > consequences > of the modifications done? Changing the lma to vma relationship will put .bss into a different load segment. Usually you wouldn't want that to happen, because it needlessly creates a new segment. You do apparently want that to happen. Please just add "AT(ADDR(.bss))" to your .bss output section description. -- Alan Modra IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre