The AVR target has an elf header flag to indicate if an object was
assembler ready for linker relaxation. If a partial link is performed
then it is important that the link-relax flag in the output object is
set correctly, otherwise, during the final link, we might try to perform
linker relaxation on code that was not assembled suitably.
As the link-relax elf header covers the entire object file we must be
conservative when setting the flag in the output object, so, for a
partial link, any input object that does not have the link-relax flag
set will cause the output object to also not have the link-relax flag
set.
This conservative approach could be softened in future, we only need to
disable the link relax flag if an input file is not marked link-relax
ready, and the input file contains a relaxable section. However, I've
left this optimisation for a later day.
For the final link I've overloaded the use of the link-relax elf header
flag, in a final executable, the flag now indicates if the executable
was built with linker relaxation on or not.
ld/ChangeLog:
* emultempl/avrelf.em: Add include of elf/avr.h.
(avr_finish): New function.
(LDEMUL_FINISH): Added.
ld/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* ld-avr/relax-elf-flags-01.d: New file.
* ld-avr/relax-elf-flags-02.d: New file.
* ld-avr/relax-elf-flags-03.d: New file.
* ld-avr/relax-elf-flags-04.d: New file.
* ld-avr/relax-elf-flags-05.d: New file.
* ld-avr/relax-elf-flags-06.d: New file.
* ld-avr/relax-elf-flags-07.d: New file.
* ld-avr/relax-elf-flags-08.d: New file.
* ld-avr/relax-elf-flags-a.s: New file.
* ld-avr/relax-elf-flags-b.s: New file.
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README for LD
This is the GNU linker. It is distributed with other "binary
utilities" which should be in ../binutils. See ../binutils/README for
more general notes, including where to send bug reports.
There are many features of the linker:
* The linker uses a Binary File Descriptor library (../bfd)
that it uses to read and write object files. This helps
insulate the linker itself from the format of object files.
* The linker supports a number of different object file
formats. It can even handle multiple formats at once:
Read two input formats and write a third.
* The linker can be configured for cross-linking.
* The linker supports a control language.
* There is a user manual (ld.texinfo), as well as the
beginnings of an internals manual (ldint.texinfo).
Installation
============
See ../binutils/README.
If you want to make a cross-linker, you may want to specify
a different search path of -lfoo libraries than the default.
You can do this by setting the LIB_PATH variable in ./Makefile
or using the --with-lib-path configure switch.
To build just the linker, make the target all-ld from the top level
directory (one directory above this one).
Porting to a new target
=======================
See the ldint.texinfo manual.
Reporting bugs etc
===========================
See ../binutils/README.
Known problems
==============
The Solaris linker normally exports all dynamic symbols from an
executable. The GNU linker does not do this by default. This is
because the GNU linker tries to present the same interface for all
similar targets (in this case, all native ELF targets). This does not
matter for normal programs, but it can make a difference for programs
which try to dlopen an executable, such as PERL or Tcl. You can make
the GNU linker export all dynamic symbols with the -E or
--export-dynamic command line option.
HP/UX 9.01 has a shell bug that causes the linker scripts to be
generated incorrectly. The symptom of this appears to be "fatal error
- scanner input buffer overflow" error messages. There are various
workarounds to this:
* Build and install bash, and build with "make SHELL=bash".
* Update to a version of HP/UX with a working shell (e.g., 9.05).
* Replace "(. ${srcdir}/scripttempl/${SCRIPT_NAME}.sc)" in
genscripts.sh with "sh ${srcdir}..." (no parens) and make sure the
emulparams script used exports any shell variables it sets.
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