Dear Trent, In message <pine.lnx.4.58.0908171214470.11...@shell2.speakeasy.net> you wrote: > > > > Do you see any want to make this backward compatible with older > > > versions of ld? > > I don't have an ld old enough to not like that line so I'm not sure > what the problem is exactly.
The problem is that SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT() and SORT_BY_NAME() were introduced for binutils 2.16, so any older versions will barf on the linker scripts. > There wouldn't be any significant downside to changing it to: > > *(SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT(.rodata*)) > > If that would work with your ld. Using *(.rodata*) will result in extra > padding and a larger data segment. It may not be all that much extra > though... Differences are minimal, actually. Please see my approach to solve this at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/66080 Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
