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Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations
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Daniel Jacobowitz |
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Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations |
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Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:06:08 -0400 |
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 06:35:02PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings! Thank you all once again. To finalize this issue for gcl,
> could you perhaps guide me as to the following:
>
> 1) Is there a central place where I can find the analogous
> data-cache-flushing assembly instructions for the Debian supported
> architectures? Barring that, decentralized places?
Glibc. Under sysdeps/<arch>/. Good luck.
> 2) The existing gcl code (on x86 for example), loads .text and .data
> sections, and allocates space for .bss but of course doesn't load.
> I've tried not allocating space for .bss on x86, as the section
> flags seem to indicate, and all still works fine. Is this
> portable? My eventual intention is to allocate space only if one
> of SEC_ALLOC and SEC_LOAD are set.
Huh? BSS should be marked SEC_ALLOC.
> 3) I don't understand stripping of binaries very well, but I was
> wondering if after relocation I could reclaim some of the space of
> the object by discarding symbol information as when stripping an
> executable. Does this shrink .text and .data section space, or
> does this just refer to the .strtab etc. sections?
No loaded segment would change size, in general.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, (continued)
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2002/06/04
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Camm Maguire, 2002/06/05
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2002/06/05
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Camm Maguire, 2002/06/05
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2002/06/05
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Camm Maguire, 2002/06/06
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2002/06/07
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Jason R Thorpe, 2002/06/07
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Paul Koning, 2002/06/07
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Camm Maguire, 2002/06/10
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations,
Daniel Jacobowitz <=
- [Gcl-devel] Flushing the d-cache (was Re: BFD relocations), Camm Maguire, 2002/06/14
- [Gcl-devel] Re: Flushing the d-cache (was Re: BFD relocations), Philip Blundell, 2002/06/14
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: Flushing the d-cache (was Re: BFD relocations), Camm Maguire, 2002/06/14
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: Flushing the d-cache (was Re: BFD relocations), Philip Blundell, 2002/06/14
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- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: Flushing the d-cache (was Re: BFD relocations), Camm Maguire, 2002/06/17
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: Flushing the d-cache (was Re: BFD relocations), Philip Blundell, 2002/06/17
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: Flushing the d-cache (was Re: BFD relocations), Camm Maguire, 2002/06/17
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: Flushing the d-cache (was Re: BFD relocations), Philip Blundell, 2002/06/17
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: Flushing the d-cache (was Re: BFD relocations), Camm Maguire, 2002/06/17
- [Gcl-devel] Re: Flushing the d-cache (was Re: BFD relocations), Andreas Schwab, 2002/06/14