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

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: "Weddington\, Eric" <eweddington at cso dot atmel dot com>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:55:53 -0800
Subject: Re: RFC: Add -z text-start-addr=ADDR to ELF linker
References: <m3fxjnc7bk.fsf@google.com> <258DDD1F44B6ED4AAFD4370847CF58D504FD81AD@csomb01.corp.atmel.com>

"Weddington, Eric" <eweddington@cso.atmel.com> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ian Lance Taylor [mailto:iant@google.com] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:52 PM
>> To: H.J. Lu
>> Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
>> Subject: Re: RFC: Add -z text-start-addr=ADDR to ELF linker
>> 
>> > Some applications may depend the current behaviour as shown
>> > in linker testcases.
>> 
>> I am very skeptical that any real ELF code uses -Ttext without also
>> using a custom linker script.
>> 
>
> AVR target. Relocate the application code to a different address for a bootloader application (needs to start at a specific high address). No need to use a custom linker script because -Ttext works for us.

Would that case stop working if -Ttext were changed to adjust the text
segment rather than the .text section?

Ian

References:
- Re: RFC: Add -z text-start-addr=ADDR to ELF linker
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor
- RE: RFC: Add -z text-start-addr=ADDR to ELF linker
  - From: Weddington, Eric

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