From: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH][v2] mpc85xx/u-boot*.lds: remove _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ definition
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:12:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5633A509.7090004@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445749348-22106-1-git-send-email-prabhakar@freescale.com>
On 10/24/2015 10:02 PM, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
> From: Zhenhua Luo <zhenhua.luo@freescale.com>
>
> In binutils-2.25, the _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ symbols defined by PROVIDE in
> u-boot.lds overrides the linker built-in symbols
> (https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;
> h=b893397a4b1316610f49819344817715e4305de9),
> so the linker is treating _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ as a definition into the
> .reloc section.
>
> To align with the change of binutils-2.25, the _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ symbol
> should not be defined in sections, and the symbols in linker generated .got
> section should be used(https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2008-09/
> msg00122.html)
>
> Fixed the following build errors with binutils-2.25:
> | powerpc-poky-linux-gnuspe-ld.bfd: _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ not defined in
> linker created .got
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhenhua Luo <zhenhua.luo@freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar@freescale.com>
> ---
> Changes for v2: Updated Subject
>
Prabhakar/Zhenghua,
Have you addressed Tom's comment (on rev 1 patch)? Quote, "What happens when we
use older binutils? I'd like some run-time testing too please".
York
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-30 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-25 5:02 [U-Boot] [PATCH][v2] mpc85xx/u-boot*.lds: remove _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ definition Prabhakar Kushwaha
2015-10-30 17:12 ` York Sun [this message]
2015-11-02 16:17 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2015-11-02 18:48 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2015-11-10 20:16 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2] " Tom Rini
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