RE: [avr-libc-dev] [RFC] Unified ELF file

[Eric Weddington]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Christiansen [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:03 PM
> To: Eric Weddington
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [avr-libc-dev] [RFC] Unified ELF file
>
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 01:50:53PM -0600, Eric Weddington wrote:
> > Should it even have LOAD (the fuse data is not technically a part of
> > the application)?
>
> But we need the data. Confirming with linker scripts here, for the
> experiments using just lfuse in .fuse, we find no value in
> the ELF file
> with NOLOAD:
>
> Disassembly of section .fuse:
>    00820000 <lfuse>:
>
> but it's there when we default to LOAD:
>
> Disassembly of section .fuse:
> 00820000 <lfuse>:
>   820000:   0f 00          Address 0x00820000 is out of bounds.
> .word 0xffff   ; ????
>
<snip>

> That seems both easier and cleaner, to me. First, we need to
> stop using
> NOLOAD.

Hmm. Strange. I didn't see that problem here. But, NOLOAD is now removed.

See attached binutils patch.

Eric Weddington


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