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Re: [m68k] Fix linking for binaries using -mid-shared-library

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie at develer dot com>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, David McCullough <davidm at snapgear dot com>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 15:28:02 -0800
Subject: Re: [m68k] Fix linking for binaries using -mid-shared-library
References: <3FEC680D.50302@develer.com> <20031227045952.GB14291@redhat.com> <3FEDB344.8020203@develer.com>

On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:28:52PM +0100, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Richard Henderson wrote:
> The uClinux toolchain has a linker frontend shell script that
> pre/post processes ELF binaries to produce "flat" files suitable
> for execution in place (XIP).  That is, executing in a romfs image
> without actually loading the code section in RAM.

I'm vaguely aware of some of this.  Though I'll note for the record
that ELF is quite capable of running in ROM as well; whoever came up
with the uclinux flat format clearly didn't understand ELF.

But what's done is done...

r~

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