I don't think the symbols that are left in place are compiled or linked any differently than the rest, and I believe the compiler/linker is explicitly instructed to leave relocation information in the final binary. You could leave those out as a space saving optimization, although that seems like it's outside the scope of this change.
Gabe
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org wrote:
On Tuesday 08 November 2011 02:08:42 Gabe Black wrote:
This change adds an upper bound for symbols which are fixed up after
u-boot
is relocated into RAM. This way portions that are left at their original location can be referred to without having to manually fix up any
pointers.
i'm not familiar with the u-boot relocation handling on x86, but if a symbol shouldn't be relocated, then why does it have an elf reloc ? shouldn't it be an absolute symbol ? -mike