public inbox for binutils@sourceware.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: loody <miloody@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: some question about output section
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 07:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110511071806.GD3625@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikOGSufJC8JT9CaVmL1SJ0O06UMzA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:27:09PM +0800, loody wrote:
> 2. I found if the LMA of 2 sections are quite close, the size of
> objcopy will get small, script1.
> But why if the LMA of third section is close to previous section, the
> size will still get big, script2?

Why do you think the LMAs are close?

Your scripts are setting LMA of a section to the end VMA of the
previous section.  I suspect that wasn't what you intended.
See ld.info LOADADDR and SIZEOF.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-11  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-27 15:29 loody
2011-04-28  0:57 ` Alan Modra
2011-04-28 16:17   ` loody
2011-04-29  0:32     ` Alan Modra
2011-05-01 13:21       ` loody
2011-05-04 15:51         ` loody
2011-05-05  0:35           ` Alan Modra
2011-05-05  3:00             ` loody
2011-05-05  3:57               ` Alan Modra
2011-05-11  6:27                 ` loody
2011-05-11  7:18                   ` Alan Modra [this message]
2011-05-11  8:12                     ` loody
2011-05-18  5:32                     ` loody
2011-05-19  4:31                       ` loody

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20110511071806.GD3625@bubble.grove.modra.org \
    --to=amodra@gmail.com \
    --cc=binutils@sourceware.org \
    --cc=miloody@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).