From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeroen Hofstee Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:09:56 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] README.commands: Document what UNDEF_SYM does In-Reply-To: <1348011772-8533-1-git-send-email-trini@ti.com> References: <1348011772-8533-1-git-send-email-trini@ti.com> Message-ID: <505A34A4.2090509@myspectrum.nl> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 09/19/2012 01:42 AM, Tom Rini wrote: > +To ensure that the linker does not discard these symbols when linking > +full U-Boot we use generate a list of all of the commands and force the > +linker to first enter the symbol as undefined in the object so that > +there is then a need for the symbol to be kept (UNDEF_SYM in the > +Makefile). > + I have no idea what this is about, but my mind has difficulty parsing this sentence. "To ensure that the linker does not discard these symbols when linking full U-Boot we use generate a list" a generated list? Regards, Jeroen