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Re: Problems with startup code symbols (Copious warnings)
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 02:32:17PM +0200, Frederic RISS wrote:
> Of course. But I don't see any non-embedded binary with a section loaded
> at NULL.
Probably...
> And I don't see much embedded bootcode needing linkonce
> sections.
... but not probably.
Typical for a lot of embedded devices I've worked with is to have a
single massive ELF image, including boot code and the entire remainder
of the image, and to use C++ for most of it. I've definitely worked
with images where this wouldn't help.
> > Is that an improvement? I guess so.
>
> It's certainly better than the current HAS_RELOCS check.
Yes, I think so. Want to do it, anybody?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery