christos@ wrote: > I grepped -R and used nxr but found nothing.
Hmm. http://nxr.netbsd.org/search?q=mkldscript.sh&project=src shows all files.. > >I wonder if you need a different script (or proper wrapper) > >for modules.. > > Well, it did not have a valid syntax also when I tried it for some > reason (ld complained). It needed: > > link_set_foo : { *(link_set_foo) } > > instead of: > > *(link_set_foo) The initial commit message says: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2004/09/13/msg152610.html --- Modified Files: src/sys/arch/cats/conf: Makefile.cats.inc src/sys/arch/shark/conf: Makefile.shark.inc src/sys/conf: Makefile.kern.inc Added Files: src/sys/arch/arm/conf: kern.ldscript.head kern.ldscript.tail mkldscript.sh Log Message: work around a binutils bug where converting ELF kernels to a.out with objcopy produces corrupted binaries when the link_set_* sections extend into another page after the end of the .text section by using a generated an ldscript that puts all the link_set_* data into the .text section in the first place. --- You can see how they can be valid in the Makefiles and kern.ldscript.{head,tail} files. Anyway, it looks required for a.out only but no one will fix a.out features.. --- Izumi Tsutsui
