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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Barebox List <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] lds: Move start/end address variables into defines
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 20:46:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191002184644.GA32491@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191002144430.14946-4-s.hauer@pengutronix.de>

Hi Sascha.

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 04:44:26PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> For the older section defines we specify the start and end addresses
> outside the macro which means we have to repeat them in each linker
> script. Make the start/end addresses part of the define to simplify
> things.

A positive side effect is that if the linker insert some alignment
then the variable will have the correct value.
I recall that I in the kernel was hit by a variable that was off by a
few bytes due to extra alignment added by the linker.
And ofc only in some configurations.

Looked through the patch but no testing.

	Sam

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-02 14:44 [PATCH 0/7] Cleanup linker scripts Sascha Hauer
2019-10-02 14:44 ` [PATCH 1/7] barebox.lds: Remove unnecessary braces Sascha Hauer
2019-10-02 14:44 ` [PATCH 2/7] ppc: remove unused variables from linker scripts Sascha Hauer
2019-10-02 14:44 ` [PATCH 3/7] lds: Move start/end address variables into defines Sascha Hauer
2019-10-02 18:46   ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2019-10-02 14:44 ` [PATCH 4/7] lds: create and use BAREBOX_PCI_FIXUP macro Sascha Hauer
2019-10-02 14:44 ` [PATCH 5/7] X86: lds: remove unnecessary alignments Sascha Hauer
2019-10-02 18:53   ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-10-14 10:05     ` [PATCH] command: Use array of pointers to commands Sascha Hauer
2019-10-14 10:08     ` [PATCH 5/7] X86: lds: remove unnecessary alignments Sascha Hauer
2019-10-02 14:44 ` [PATCH 6/7] lds: remove more " Sascha Hauer
2019-10-02 18:55   ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-10-02 14:44 ` [PATCH 7/7] lds: Add and use RO_DATA_SECTION macro Sascha Hauer

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