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Re: Bloated binaries following the use of AT(...) linker script command
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 02:05:11PM -0700, Prasad B wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > AT in PHDRS specifies the load address of
> > the segment, but doesn't change the load address of sections
> > assigned to that segment. No doubt your section load addresses are a
> > long way from 0x81000000, so the segment contains a lot of zeros.
>
> As the manual says "The AT command for a program header overrides the
> section attribute".
That's exactly what happened. AT overrode the load address for the
segment rather than taking the load address from the first section in
the segment.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM