* PowerPC EABI and segment alignment
@ 2006-07-24 20:16 Michael Eager
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From: Michael Eager @ 2006-07-24 20:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: binutils
The PowerPC SVR4 ABI specifies that segments are to be aligned
on a 64K (0x10000) boundary. The PowerPC EABI specifies that there
are no alignment restrictions for loadable segments. Probably
the best segment alignment value for EABI would be 8 or 16 bytes.
The alignment is controlled by ELF_MAXPAGESIZE and ELF_MINPAGESIZE
in bfd/elf32-ppc.c and MAXPAGESIZE and COMMONPAGESIZE in
ld/emulparams/elf32ppc.sh. These are set to the appropriate values
for SVR4, even when binutils configured for powerpc-eabi.
The configuration in bfd and ld for powerpc-sysv and powerpc-eabi
are identical.
What would be the best way to change binutils to have the correct
segment alignment for powerpc-eabi?
I can separate the powerpc-eabi config in bfd and ld from
powerpc-sysv. Another way is to set a create an EABI define.
There's also some code which creates a define for QNX in the
bfd config and uses this to set ELF_MAXPAGESIZE. (The define is
only set for ARM, and only referenced in PPC, so this seems to be
cruft.)
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