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Re: PATCH: Add -Ttext-segment ADDR to ELF linker


On Sun, 10 May 2009, H.J. Lu wrote:

> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 7:46 AM, John David Anglin
> <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >
> >> I don't think we should take this risk to potentially break existing
> >> applications. ?Here is a patch to add a new switch -Ttext-segment.
> >> I can reuse -Ttext and update linker tests if it is preferred.
> >
> > This change breaks glibc builds on parisc. ?The glibc build attempts
> > to modify the default linker script with a sed script to provide the
> > symbol _begin used by the dynamic loader.
> >
> 
> It was fixed by
> 
> http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2009-01/msg00036.html
> 
> If you have problems on parisc, it must be parisc specific.

The problem is old versions of glibc can't be built.  Also, the fix
probably doesn't work if the -T option is used to specify the start
of the text segment.

Dave
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J. David Anglin                                  dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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