Re: binutils 2.19 issue with kernel link

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:41:39PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> If we modify the linker script:
>
>       _end2 = .;
>       _end3 = ALIGN(4096);
>       _end4 = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
>       . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
>       _end = . ;
>       PROVIDE32 (end = .);
>
> and the result is:
>
> 00001000 A _end
> c067f678 A _end2
> c0680000 A _end3
> c0680000 A _end4

Possibly some section with a zero vma is being placed before _end.
Generate a link map to see if this is so.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM