On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Detlev Zundel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > >> In message <[email protected]> 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. -- Jon Smirl [email protected] _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
