From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerry Van Baren Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:28:32 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Does u-boot relocate absolute symbols? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <42C42BC0.2050309@smiths-aerospace.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Rune Torgersen wrote: > Wow.... This surprises me... > I have alwayts thought that *test and test[] would be the same thing. > > Only solutionI can see is to change the definition in common.c to be > *test, this will still get the address of test[] defined elsewhere. > (See attached files) > > >>Sure, I've tried this. This is the point, where my problem >>arose. Attached you find two >>small files, you can easily compile under linux (gcc -o >>arrtest -I ./ ./common.c >>./array.c). The file "common.c" represents the code I can't >>(don't want to) touch. >>"array.c" represents my project dependent code. If you run >>arrtest it will show to you, With the patch in place (previously sent to the list), it works for linux: vanbaren at sherwood:~/x> ll total 32 -rwxr----- 1 vanbaren users 200 Jun 30 13:24 array.c -rwxr-xr-x 1 vanbaren users 8963 Jun 30 13:26 arrtest -rwxr----- 1 vanbaren users 132 Jun 30 08:03 common.c -rwxr----- 1 vanbaren users 121 Jun 30 08:03 common.c-original -rw-r--r-- 1 vanbaren users 237 Jun 30 08:04 common.c.diff -rwxr----- 1 vanbaren users 24 Jun 30 13:23 common.h vanbaren at sherwood:~/x> gcc -o arrtest -I ./ ./common.c ./array.c vanbaren at sherwood:~/x> ./arrtest *test: 0x08048558 test[]: 0x08048558 gvb