> The theory was that the linker should do the right thing and not emit a > relocation that can't reach the boundary of the text segment (i.e. it > should embed a stub between the sections as it combines them). I'll > have to fire up a 32 bit compile and see exactly what it thinks it's > doing ... I've got a nasty feeling it expects us to be able to stub > either at the beginning or the end, which the in-kernel loader doesn't. See ld --stub-group-size=N option. GCC assumes stub sections are at the beginning and that the linker can insert stubs between input sections. Merging text sections is likely to cause problems. Dave -- J. David Anglin dave.anglin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6602) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
