From: "Grégory Hermant" <gregory.hermant@calao-systems.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] at91bootstrap: fix gcc-4.6.x overlap linker issue
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:02:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50766EEF.7070308@calao-systems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121010131905.4c485886@skate>
Hi thomas,
Thanks very much for your feedback.
gregory
Le 10/10/2012 13:19, Thomas Petazzoni a ?crit :
> Gr?gory,
>
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:27:18 +0200, Gr?gory Hermant wrote:
>> Things always happen in threes...
>> This patch fixes an issue detected in the linking stage of the at91bootstraploader from gcc-4.6.x release.
>> Indeed from this gcc release the linking stage fails due to an overlap between text.startup and data section.
>> To fix this issue we need to modify the linker script in order to add the text.startup input section into the text output section.
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gregory Hermant <gregory.hermant@calao-systems.com>
>> ---
>> ...at91bootstrap-1.16-gcc-4.6.x-ldscript-fix.patch | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 boot/at91bootstrap/at91bootstrap-1.16-gcc-4.6.x-ldscript-fix.patch
>
> Unfortunately, it still cannot be applied as is:
>
> *) All the text before the --- separator goes into the commit log (so
> it remains forever in the Buildroot commit history). Therefore, it
> shouldn't contain "personal" comments such as "Things always happen in
> threes"
>
> *) The commit log text should be wrapped at ~80 columns
>
> In addition to that, most of the commit log text would benefit from
> being copy/pasted into the description of the
> at91bootstrap-1.16-gcc-4.6.x-ldscript-fix.patch patch.
>
> Of course, Peter can probably fix those minor problems while
> committing, but I thought it would be useful to describe what's still
> not perfect with your patch.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-10 8:27 [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] at91bootstrap: fix gcc-4.6.x overlap linker issue Grégory Hermant
2012-10-10 11:19 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-11 7:02 ` Grégory Hermant [this message]
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