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Re: [PATCH] PR ld/19572: -Ttext-segment accepts out of range value
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:08:00 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] PR ld/19572: -Ttext-segment accepts out of range value
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On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 7:52 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 01:16:58PM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> The address for -Tbss, -Tdata, -Ttext, -Ttext-segment, -Trodata-segment
>>> and -Tldata-segment shouldn't be bigger than the address space.
>>
>> Does it really matter if someone specifies an address that wraps?
>>
>> If it does, then it opens up other questions like: Is the 32-bit
>> address range 0 to 4G-1 or -2G to 2G-1? We have ELF targets (see
>> bed->sign_extend_vma) where the latter might be more natural.
>
> When address passed to -Txxxx overflows, bfd_scan_vma returns:
>
> if (overflow)
> value = ~ (bfd_vma) 0;
>
> My patch just checks this condition and issues an error. Is there any
> anything wrong with it?
>
Unless I am shown "~ (bfd_vma) 0" is a valid address for -Txxx before
this Friday, I will check it in on Friday.
--
H.J.