From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v1] arm: remove unneeded symbol offsets and _TEXT_BASE
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:04:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131015140455.397e94c5@lilith> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131013191633.3171a883@lilith>
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:16:33 +0200, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> wrote:
> I don't think so. The switch from _end to __rel_dyn_end is done
> precisely to avoid using a symbol for which an offset is needed (_end,
> because linker-defined, can only have absolute relocations) and use
> instead a compiler-defined, relocatable, symbol (__rel_dyn_end, compiled
> from sections.c, always takes relative relocation) which does not need
> an offset. This switch thus belongs in this patch.
Actually, _end could be made a compiler-generated symbol too. This
would be more consistent with what is done with the BSS and image start
and end symbols, and would allow keeping _end here. Will revert change
here and send v2 as a two-patch series as you suggest.
> Amicalement,
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-15 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-13 7:10 [U-Boot] [PATCH v1] arm: remove unneeded symbol offsets and _TEXT_BASE Albert ARIBAUD
2013-10-13 8:03 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-10-13 15:00 ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2013-10-13 17:16 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-10-14 6:59 ` [U-Boot] Handling hangs (was: [PATCH v1] arm: remove unneeded symbol offsets and _TEXT_BASE) Albert ARIBAUD
2013-10-14 10:22 ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2013-10-14 11:32 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-10-14 11:47 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-10-15 11:07 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v1] arm: remove unneeded symbol offsets and _TEXT_BASE Benoît Thébaudeau
2013-10-15 11:21 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-10-15 12:04 ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]
2013-11-07 14:15 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] arm: make _end compiler-generated Albert ARIBAUD
2013-11-07 14:15 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/2] arm: remove unneeded symbol offsets and _TEXT_BASE Albert ARIBAUD
2013-11-08 21:40 ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2013-11-08 21:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] arm: make _end compiler-generated Benoît Thébaudeau
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