From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: York Sun Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:12:41 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH][v2] mpc85xx/u-boot*.lds: remove _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ definition In-Reply-To: <1445749348-22106-1-git-send-email-prabhakar@freescale.com> References: <1445749348-22106-1-git-send-email-prabhakar@freescale.com> Message-ID: <5633A509.7090004@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 10/24/2015 10:02 PM, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote: > From: Zhenhua Luo > > 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 > Signed-off-by: Prabhakar Kushwaha > --- > 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