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Re: Possible bug with bss allocation
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Date: 
Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:52:38 GMT
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"Eddie C. Dost" <ecd@skynet.be> wrote in message
news:200007222049.WAA21955@reset.reset.net...
> With this approach, makelx has full section, symbol and relocation info
> in the .r file, and can do a much better job moving sections around (in
> case ld introduces extra alignment and such).
> Also you get the chance to disassemble the binary, look at the relocs or
> symbols with h8300-hitachi-hms-objdump, a lot better then when looking
> at srecs with objdump.
> If you need the srecs for anything, you can always use
> ld -oformat symbolsrec to relocate the image and generate srecs.
> 
> If noone objects, I would implement this. The Makefile changes are • trivial,
> only major change is to makelx, which would read coff files. I have done
> these things before, so this would not be too hard.

In my opinion this is a great idea! :-) Please do the implementation!

It also could be very usefull to have some docs / makefile options to make
srecs too.

Bye,
     Paolo.

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  Re: Possible bug with bss allocation
 
(...) Paolo and others: Eddie and I have talked about this, and we both agree that this is a big change- so I think we are aiming for this for 0.2.5. Since it has already been seven months since 0.2.3, I think we'll aim for getting 0.2.4 out the (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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  Re: Possible bug with bss allocation
 
(...) I have a proposal to the legOS developers: The current tool chain to generate executables for legOS is a little off: We generate coff-h8300 from .c or .S sources, next ld generates symbolsrec relocated files from that. This step is done twice (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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