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From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Niklas Cassel via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
Cc: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/elf2flt: fix error when building gdb for target on m68k
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 15:15:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230205151502.07fd434d@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230117153503.2075602-1-niklas.cassel@wdc.com>

Hello Niklas,

On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:35:03 +0100
Niklas Cassel via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org> wrote:

> Thomas reported that m68k fails to build when enabling BR2_PACKAGE_GDB.
> 
> It fails when building gdb for the target with the following error:
> elf2flt: ERROR: text=0x3c826 overlaps data=0x256e0 ?
> 
> It turns out that the gdb binary has another problematic input section
> (.gcc_except_table), which causes elf2flt to try to append to the .text
> output section, after it has already moved on with appending sections
> to the .data output section.
> 
> elf2flt cannot append to a previous output section once it has moved on
> to another output section.
> 
> Update the existing elf2flt patch to also add an exception for
> .gcc_except_table.
> 
> Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
> ---
>  ...l-error-regression-on-m68k-xtensa-ri.patch | 47 ++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

Many, many thanks for looking into this. It's a bit annoying that those
special sections have to be special-cased. Hopefully this will not
encounter too many of those special cases.

In the mean time, I've applied your patch to master. Thanks again!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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2023-01-17 15:35 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/elf2flt: fix error when building gdb for target on m68k Niklas Cassel via buildroot
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