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Re: [Qemu-devel] Could configure generate QEMU's linker scripts?


From: Richard Henderson
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Could configure generate QEMU's linker scripts?
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 10:21:35 -0700
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On 05/19/2013 09:30 AM, Ed Maste wrote:
> On 19 May 2013 10:51, in a thread relating to the sparc-linux-user
> linker script, Michael Tokarev <address@hidden> wrote:
>> If we apply this for 1.5, it will be the first release of debian
>> package without extra fixes.  Hopefully anyway :)
>>
>> (Ofcourse we may add more fixes later but... ;)
> 
> Would it be reasonable to have QEMU's configure use sed or awk to
> start with ld's built-in linker script and transform it with the
> necessary modifications?

In general I believe that using the -Ttext-segment ADDR flag for ld
would completely obviate the need for even editing the link script.

> That is, it just changes the start address.  Is this generally the
> only difference between QEMU's linker scripts and system built-ins?

Yes.


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