[PATCH] PR ld/19572: -Ttext-segment accepts out of range value

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 13:59:00 GMT 2016
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 01:16:58PM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> The address for -Tbss, -Tdata, -Ttext, -Ttext-segment, -Trodata-segment
> and -Tldata-segment shouldn't be bigger than the address space.

Does it really matter if someone specifies an address that wraps?

If it does, then it opens up other questions like:  Is the 32-bit
address range 0 to 4G-1 or -2G to 2G-1?  We have ELF targets (see
bed->sign_extend_vma) where the latter might be more natural.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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