Dear Trent Piepho, on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:35:08 +0200 I wrote:
> Dear Trent Piepho, > > In message <1234999325-13456-1-git-send-email-tpie...@freescale.com> you > wrote: > > > > A recent gcc added a new unaligned rodata section called '.rodata.str1.1', > > which needs to be added the the linker script. Instead of just adding this > > one section, we use a wildcard ".rodata*" to get all rodata linker section > > gcc has now and might add in the future. > ... > > I change this to: > > > > *(.text) > > . = ALIGN(16); > > *(.eh_frame) > > *(SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT(SORT_BY_NAME(.rodata*))) > > Unfortunately it turns out that this breaks some older tool chains. > For example, using ELDK 3.1 (binutils 2.14-5) we get: > > arm-linux-ld:/home/wd/git/u-boot/work/cpu/s3c44b0/u-boot.lds:39: parse error > > It seems this old version of ld does not understand the > > *(SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT(SORT_BY_NAME(.rodata*))) > > line yet. > > Do you see any want to make this backward compatible with older > versions of ld? > > Thanks in advance. Any comments on this? Or anybody else? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. - James Bryant Conant _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot