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Re: RFC: Add -z text-start-addr=ADDR to ELF linker


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:34:16AM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> > 2. ELF segment has no names. The name of
>> > the ELF segment doesn't mean anything.
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean.  Of course ELF segments have no names.
>> I'm suggesting that -Ttext should set the start of the text segment.
>> The current behaviour, of setting the address of the .text section, is
>> useless for ELF.
>
> Completely agreed, this would be useful...
>

Some applications may depend the current behaviour as shown
in linker testcases. I would prefer a new switch, something like
-Tsegment.


-- 
H.J.


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