Re: MIPS version of LD not honoring -Ttext for .MIPS.abiflags section

[Geoff Mottram]

Hi Nick,

Your work-around is very clever. I will try it out.

Thanks.

Geoff

On 05/26/2016 06:34 AM, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
>
> > The problem with the first approach is I would like the linker
> > to just pack the MIPS abiflags section with the .text, .got and
> > .rodata sections so I don't have to calculate the size of the
> > other sections ahead of time.
> Is the .MIPS.abiflags section a fixed size ?  I suspect that it is.
> If I am right then you could try something like this:
>
>    --start-address=.MIPS.abiflags=0x80200000 -Ttext=0x80200012
>
> (If the section is 0x12 bytes long...)
>
> If you cannot find a workaround for the problem, please feel free
> to file a bug report here:
>
>    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/
>
> Not that I am guaranteeing that we will be able to find a solution
> ourselves, but it is worth a try.
>
> Cheers
>    Nick