Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
In message <4ce61ad5.50...@free.fr> you wrote:
>
> Most probably 2); mentioning a file in the linker script either with or
> without mentioning it on the command line has certainly been done for
> some time, so I doubt the feature is new; and certainly the doc is about
> files, not symbols in different files.
There seems to be a (here significant) difference between object files
on the command line and libraries (which appear to be handled like
a mere collection of object files).
> And, to get back to possible solutions, I don't know that the linker can
> map selected symbols onto specific regions; it can only place whole
> object files.
There must be a way ;-)
> The simplest, though not cleanest, way I can think of is to put
> conditionals to not compile vsprintf() in lib/generic, and set those
> conditions from the board config file -- and same for anything else.
> Ugly, but it will work.
>
> A second solution, a bit more intrusive, would be to split lib/generic
> in two files; a "small" one which could be mapped in the small area, and
> the rest, which would map with the rest of the image.
That doesn't scale - the set is sifferent on a per-board base, which
would result in a terrible mess.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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