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From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
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Hello!

> The fact that you can't treat the generated .o as a normal object
> is simply a maintenance nightmare.

Why? You can easily convert it to a normal absolute .o file by objcopy.

Also, I think you could do the same in the linker script.

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
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