From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Anitha Boyapati <anitha.boyapati@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Strange LMA/VMA behavior with regions
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 23:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110512233357.GA6867@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=2H2sxxHfymE0ir4JfMxV+49M_UA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 07:38:59PM +0530, Anitha Boyapati wrote:
> > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:50:31PM +0530, Abnikant Singh wrote:
> >> Â .text_os ALIGN(8) :
> >
> > This says to set the address of the output section .text_os. Â When you
> > set the address, any input section alignment is ignored. Â This happens
>
> I agree that ALIGN() overrides input section alignment. But if we set
> address for VMA using ALIGN(), should it affect LMA too? I think it
> should not.
That would be inconsistent. If you specify an address for an output
section it most certainly should affect both VMA and LMA. After all,
LMA is equal to VMA in the usual case. I see no reason whatsoever to
treat an address that happens to use ALIGN any differently from any
other address.
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <BANLkTi=+O9YvCp42jT3k0fKiC4z0opvAdA@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <BANLkTinEBMoiGna1KJKn1KqtvNsHdHynoA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-05-12 14:09 ` Anitha Boyapati
2011-05-12 23:34 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2011-05-13 2:44 ` Anitha Boyapati
2011-05-13 3:41 ` Alan Modra
2011-05-13 4:15 ` Anitha Boyapati
2011-05-13 5:26 ` Alan Modra
2011-05-13 5:45 ` Boyapati, Anitha
2011-05-13 5:02 ` Boyapati, Anitha
2011-05-13 5:42 ` Alan Modra
2011-05-11 7:20 Abnikant Singh
2011-05-11 7:45 ` Alan Modra
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2010-11-29 13:15 Sebastian Huber
2010-11-30 17:00 ` Sebastian Huber
2010-12-01 13:13 ` Alan Modra
2010-12-01 15:03 ` Sebastian Huber
2010-12-02 0:46 ` Alan Modra
2010-12-02 8:03 ` Sebastian Huber
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