On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Detlev Zundel dzu@denx.de wrote:
Hi Wolfgang,
In message m27i2bl0a3.fsf@ohwell.denx.de you wrote:
By providing a sample linker script to make the example programs smaller, you could avoid discussions like this in the future.
But as long as we do not understand what we change or what this does, we may well get a lot of bug threads in return. And I have to admit, I'm not to keen on that.
But we do understand what's going on, or am I missing something?
I was referring to the other proposed change which I still do not understand:
The *.bin files are ending up at 60-75K. Adding this to the linker script fixes it. .gcc_except_table : ONLY_IF_RO { KEEP (*(.gcc_except_table)) *(.gcc_except_table.*) }
I fully agree that the examples should rather use defaults because as the name implies, they are examples after all, not tightly optimized special cases.
Providing an example linker script would show us the right way to write it. I've never written a linker script for the ppc and I don't know what I'm doing. Copying the the one over from the CPU directory was not sufficient to make the app smaller.