> -----Original Message----- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > rg] On Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch > Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 3:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [avrdude-dev] [task #5093] Add support for > reading ELF files. > > However, I'm completely against hardcoding section names from ELF > files. AVR Studio did that mistake before, and the result was that > people could not debug their .bootloader sections. Let's face it, > people *do* invent their own section names, so we simply have to cope > with it. Eric, as little as you like it (I don't really like it > either), these magic memory offsets are by now our only real > distinction between different memory spaces of the AVR. These offsets > are simply required until the day the entire GNU toolchain has been > taught to handle multiple target memory spaces without flattening them > into a single large one (which I don't see any volunteer for so far).
Hmm. Can you explain your reasoning a bit more? I'm at a loss in understanding why we cannot reserve certain section names in the ELF file. Eric _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev
