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Re: Load addresses for ELF program headers on ARM
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 07:37:30PM -0500, Matt Fischer wrote:
> That does seem to fix the problem. It looks like that change simply
> disables the VMA check on the section, which makes sense because in
> this model the section's VMA won't be inside of the segment anymore.
> Given that the code inside this block looks like it can correctly deal
> with a segment that contains noncontiguous VMA's, I'm assuming this
> change is ok to submit as an actual patch, correct? If so, I'd be
> happy to write it up and submit it, if you'd like.
I figured the change would fix your particular testcase. The
difficult part of "see what happens" is determining what this change
might break, and convincing me or another binutils maintainer that the
change is safe.. At the moment I don't have time to investigate that
myself.
>
> --Matt
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You might like to change the ELF_SECTION_IN_SEGMENT (hdr, phdr) in
> > elf.c:_bfd_elf_make_section_from_shdr to
> > ELF_SECTION_IN_SEGMENT_1 (hdr, phdr, 0, 0), and see what happens.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM