On Fri, 2015-10-30 at 10:12 -0700, York Sun wrote: > > On 10/24/2015 10:02 PM, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote: > > From: Zhenhua Luo <zhenhua....@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),
hmm, what was the reson for this change in binutils? As I recall, PROVIDE should only add a symbol when there is none and now binutils just ignores this, strange. > > so the linker is treating _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ as a definition into the > > .reloc section. Yes, where do you want it instead? what is the difference with/without PROVIDE? > > > > 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....@freescale.com> > > Signed-off-by: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabha...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot mailing list > U-Boot@lists.denx.de > http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot