Re: 2.6.26-rc1 on x86: ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.text'

Pavel Machek
2008-05-11T18:52:20Z

Hi!

> > > The resulting kernel hasn't broken on me yet, however.
> > >
> > > A search through the LKML archives showed that this was reported
> > > for 2.6.25-rc3-mm1, but I couldn't find any discussion about it
> > > after that:
> > >
> > > <http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120470303728010&w=2>
> > >
> > > The .config causing this warning is available in
> > > <http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/ale/config-2.6.26-rc1>
> > >
> >
> > This is because the organization of the file was changed, and the linker
> > script wasn't changed to match:
> >
> > SECTIONS
> > {
> > . = HEADER_OFFSET;
> > .header : {
> > *(.header)
> > }
> >
> > . = 0;
> > .text : {
> > *(.text*)
> > }
> >
> > This is crap; the sections should be listed *in order* so the linker can
> > warn properly when something bad happens.
> >
> > The code should be correct; reorganizing the linker script correctly
> > should fix the problem.

I'm not good at linker magic. I needed to put code from offset zero,
while still having header at known address...

> Hm. The above is from Pavel and Sam.

Sorry about that. Plus, I'm on holidays just now...

Pavel

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