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

[Erik Christiansen]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:25:50PM -0600, Eric Weddington wrote:
> > From: Erik Christiansen [mailto:address@hidden
> 
> > 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.

Maybe I could update:    $ avr-ld --version
                           GNU ld version 2.16.1

but backward compatibility could avoid a bit of sqabbling. :-)

Both to confirm, and to ease my (unfounded) concern about possible bloat
in ihex or srec files, I made a quick comparison of the ihex. These two
lines were omitted in the NOLOAD case:

:02000004008278      # RECTYP = 04, LBA = 8200, CKSM = 78
:010000000FF0        # lfuse = 0F & checksum.     \
                                              *1
just before the End of File Record ":00000001FF". So it's not just an
ELF displaying artifact. The data does go west.

*1) I still don't grok the mechanics of the formula which simply ends up
shifting this left 8 bits to make 0x820000.

> See attached binutils patch.

Looks good.

Many thanks!

Erik Christiansen