Re: weak alias in gas on arm-elf

[Brian Sidebotham <micros at valvers dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> The symbol is weak, not the code following it.  Weakness only affects
> the definitions of symbols.
>
> Also, using objdump -d on unlinked object files is a good way to get
> confused.  Try adding -r to see what's really happening.
>
> The ldr version you posted does not make any sense, by the way.
> You want the address of the symbol moved to pc, not the contents of
> the instruction there!  I suspect the original version was supposed to
> load the symbol value from a constant pool.

Daniel,

the ldr version should have been:

	...

	ldr pc, __hander1

__handler1: .word _hander1

_hander1:
	b	.

	...

Sorry to have posted up misleading information, and thank you for your 
explanations.

Best Regards,

Brian Sidebotham.