Re: [QUESTION] FRV: linking error?

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Wed Feb 20 2008 - 08:14:51 EST


On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:01:05PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > being see over vmlinux.lds for FRV architecture I found the string:
> >
> > . = ALIGN(4096);
> > .data.page_aligned : { *(.data.idt) }
> >
> > though the PAGE_SIZE is 16K. Can't figure out why is that...
> > Do you have a few spare minutes to explain, please?
>
> Ummm... Good question. Probably a legacy thing. I think the .data.idt
> section is also an x86-only thing and should be dispensed with for FRV.
> Leastways, the section has nothing in it according to the link map.

A quick grep agree with you.
I see it used only in x86 in traps_32 for the F0 0F bug.
It exist in several .lds files - including frv.

Sam
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