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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:53:49 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC] arm926ejs: fix linker file for newer ld support
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Le 31/10/2010 19:35, Darius Augulis a ?crit :

> But it's strange, because I done the same test of declaring variable in
> start.s:
>
> ..globl cmd_start
> cmd_start:
>           .word __u_boot_cmd_start
>
> Then disassembled elf shows it's value:
>
> 57e00048<cmd_start>:
> 57e00048:       00000000        .word   0x00000000

Indeed. :)

That's why, for instance, the _rel_dyn_start_ofs literal is defined as

	.word _rel_dyn_start - _start

... rather than simply as

	.word _rel_dyn start

... because the latter always produces 0 (it expects it to be fixed up 
by the relocation code, which causes a catch-22) while the former 
produces the expected difference which can then be fixed.

> Commands are there and somehow working, but at least it's very strange.

Yes, it baffled me too. :)

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.