On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 02:31:53PM -0500, Edmar Wienskoski-RA8797 wrote:
> I understand your arguments, but there is something inconsistent about this.
> If I change the script to be:
>        _end3 = . ;
>        . = _end3;
>        . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
>        _end = . ;
>        PROVIDE32 (end = .);
> }
> The result is corrected:
> c067f678 A _end3
> c0680000 A _end
>
> Why the apuinfo section with zero VMA sometimes interfere with "." and  
> sometimes not ?

I said it was weird in my last email.  Not so.  The orphan gets placed
between

       _end3 = . ;
       . = _end3;

So dot is restored after the orphan section sets it.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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