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[Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Mon Jun 10 16:10:00 GMT 2002 
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 06:35:02PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!  Thank you all once again.  To finalize this issue for gcl,
> could you perhaps guide me as to the following:
> 
> 1) Is there a central place where I can find the analogous
>    data-cache-flushing assembly instructions for the Debian supported
>    architectures?  Barring that, decentralized places?

Glibc.  Under sysdeps/<arch>/.  Good luck.

> 2) The existing gcl code (on x86 for example), loads .text and .data
>    sections, and allocates space for .bss but of course doesn't load.
>    I've tried not allocating space for .bss on x86, as the section
>    flags seem to indicate, and all still works fine.  Is this
>    portable?  My eventual intention is to allocate space only if one
>    of SEC_ALLOC and SEC_LOAD are set.

Huh?  BSS should be marked SEC_ALLOC.

> 3) I don't understand stripping of binaries very well, but I was
>    wondering if after relocation I could reclaim some of the space of
>    the object by discarding symbol information as when stripping an
>    executable.  Does this shrink .text and .data section space, or
>    does this just refer to the .strtab etc. sections?

No loaded segment would change size, in general.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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