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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 09:09:54 +0930
From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: binutils 2.19 issue with kernel link
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On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:41:39PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> If we modify the linker script:
>
>       _end2 = .;
>       _end3 = ALIGN(4096);
>       _end4 = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
>       . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
>       _end = . ;
>       PROVIDE32 (end = .);
>
> and the result is:
>
> 00001000 A _end
> c067f678 A _end2
> c0680000 A _end3
> c0680000 A _end4

Possibly some section with a zero vma is being placed before _end.
Generate a link map to see if this is so.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM