Putting the LONG(0) right after *(initcall.init) made
the problem go away. So,it is gotta be in the section
description.
Thanks.
--- Håvard_Skinnemoen <skinnemo@itk.ntnu.no> wrote:
> On Thursday, Jul 31, 2003, at 21:42 Europe/Oslo,
> PoIsOn wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I need to add a few bytes of 0's in my vmlinux
> object
> > file.So I have added a LONG(0) statement in
> > arch/mips/ld.script. But the linker spits out a
> parse
> > error at that line when I do a 'make'
> >
> > Here is the snippet:
> > . = ALIGN(32);
> > __initcall_start = .;
> > .initcall.init : { *(.initcall.init) }
> > __initcall_end = .;
> > LONG(0)
> > . = ALIGN(4096); /* Align double page for
> > init_task_union */
> > __init_end = .;
> >
> > Can somebody say what is wrong in here?
>
> I would guess that you need a semicolon after
> LONG(0). Or, I think
> maybe LONG() is only valid inside a section
> description. Try to put it
> just after *(.initcall.init).
>
> Håvard
>
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