Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:35:04PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Currently in the linker script we have several labels >> marking the beginning and ending of sections that >> are outside of sections, making them absolute symbols. > > They are outside the sections for a very specific reason. > If moved inside the section they sometimes got unexpected values due to > the alignment that ld impose on the section itself. > > I recall that when Kai Germaschewski long time ago started the > unification of the vmlinux.lds files some people had boot problems > exactly because the label was defined inside the section and therefore > ld caused it to have another value as if it was placed outside the > section.
I remember seeing something like that. I don't know if those problems apply to a modern ld, but it is certainly worth looking into. > I no longer recall the precise details of what happened. > Google may help you... Thanks. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
