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This is Info file ld.info, produced by Makeinfo version 1.68 from the
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input file ./ld.texinfo.
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START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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* Ld: (ld). The GNU linker.
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END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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This file documents the GNU linker LD.
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Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 1998 Free Software
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Foundation, Inc.
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Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
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manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
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preserved on all copies.
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
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this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also
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that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms
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of a permission notice identical to this one.
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
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manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
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versions.
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File: ld.info, Node: Option Commands, Prev: Version Script, Up: Commands
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Option Commands
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===============
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The command language includes a number of other commands that you can
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use for specialized purposes. They are similar in purpose to
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command-line options.
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`CONSTRUCTORS'
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When linking using the `a.out' object file format, the linker uses
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an unusual set construct to support C++ global constructors and
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destructors. When linking object file formats which do not support
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arbitrary sections, such as `ECOFF' and `XCOFF', the linker will
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automatically recognize C++ global constructors and destructors by
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name. For these object file formats, the `CONSTRUCTORS' command
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tells the linker where this information should be placed. The
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`CONSTRUCTORS' command is ignored for other object file formats.
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The symbol `__CTOR_LIST__' marks the start of the global
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constructors, and the symbol `__DTOR_LIST' marks the end. The
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first word in the list is the number of entries, followed by the
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address of each constructor or destructor, followed by a zero
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word. The compiler must arrange to actually run the code. For
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these object file formats GNU C++ calls constructors from a
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subroutine `__main'; a call to `__main' is automatically inserted
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into the startup code for `main'. GNU C++ runs destructors either
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by using `atexit', or directly from the function `exit'.
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For object file formats such as `COFF' or `ELF' which support
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multiple sections, GNU C++ will normally arrange to put the
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addresses of global constructors and destructors into the `.ctors'
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and `.dtors' sections. Placing the following sequence into your
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linker script will build the sort of table which the GNU C++
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runtime code expects to see.
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__CTOR_LIST__ = .;
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LONG((__CTOR_END__ - __CTOR_LIST__) / 4 - 2)
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*(.ctors)
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LONG(0)
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__CTOR_END__ = .;
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__DTOR_LIST__ = .;
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LONG((__DTOR_END__ - __DTOR_LIST__) / 4 - 2)
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*(.dtors)
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LONG(0)
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__DTOR_END__ = .;
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Normally the compiler and linker will handle these issues
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automatically, and you will not need to concern yourself with
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them. However, you may need to consider this if you are using C++
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and writing your own linker scripts.
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`FLOAT'
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`NOFLOAT'
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These keywords were used in some older linkers to request a
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particular math subroutine library. `ld' doesn't use the
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keywords, assuming instead that any necessary subroutines are in
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libraries specified using the general mechanisms for linking to
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archives; but to permit the use of scripts that were written for
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the older linkers, the keywords `FLOAT' and `NOFLOAT' are accepted
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and ignored.
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`FORCE_COMMON_ALLOCATION'
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This command has the same effect as the `-d' command-line option:
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to make `ld' assign space to common symbols even if a relocatable
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output file is specified (`-r').
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`INCLUDE FILENAME'
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Include the linker script FILENAME at this point. The file will
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be searched for in the current directory, and in any directory
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specified with the `-L' option. You can nest calls to `INCLUDE'
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up to 10 levels deep.
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`INPUT ( FILE, FILE, ... )'
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`INPUT ( FILE FILE ... )'
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Use this command to include binary input files in the link, without
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including them in a particular section definition. Specify the
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full name for each FILE, including `.a' if required.
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`ld' searches for each FILE through the archive-library search
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path, just as for files you specify on the command line. See the
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description of `-L' in *Note Command Line Options: Options.
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If you use `-lFILE', `ld' will transform the name to `libFILE.a'
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as with the command line argument `-l'.
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`GROUP ( FILE, FILE, ... )'
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`GROUP ( FILE FILE ... )'
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This command is like `INPUT', except that the named files should
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all be archives, and they are searched repeatedly until no new
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undefined references are created. See the description of `-(' in
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*Note Command Line Options: Options.
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`OUTPUT ( FILENAME )'
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Use this command to name the link output file FILENAME. The
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effect of `OUTPUT(FILENAME)' is identical to the effect of
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`-o FILENAME', which overrides it. You can use this command to
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supply a default output-file name other than `a.out'.
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`OUTPUT_ARCH ( BFDNAME )'
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Specify a particular output machine architecture, with one of the
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names used by the BFD back-end routines (*note BFD::.). This
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command is often unnecessary; the architecture is most often set
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implicitly by either the system BFD configuration or as a side
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effect of the `OUTPUT_FORMAT' command.
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`OUTPUT_FORMAT ( BFDNAME )'
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When `ld' is configured to support multiple object code formats,
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you can use this command to specify a particular output format.
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BFDNAME is one of the names used by the BFD back-end routines
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(*note BFD::.). The effect is identical to the effect of the
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`--oformat' command-line option. This selection affects only the
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output file; the related command `TARGET' affects primarily input
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files.
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`SEARCH_DIR ( PATH )'
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Add PATH to the list of paths where `ld' looks for archive
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libraries. `SEARCH_DIR(PATH)' has the same effect as `-LPATH' on
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the command line.
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`STARTUP ( FILENAME )'
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Ensure that FILENAME is the first input file used in the link
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process.
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`TARGET ( FORMAT )'
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When `ld' is configured to support multiple object code formats,
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you can use this command to change the input-file object code
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format (like the command-line option `-b' or its synonym
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`--format'). The argument FORMAT is one of the strings used by
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BFD to name binary formats. If `TARGET' is specified but
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`OUTPUT_FORMAT' is not, the last `TARGET' argument is also used as
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the default format for the `ld' output file. *Note BFD::.
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If you don't use the `TARGET' command, `ld' uses the value of the
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environment variable `GNUTARGET', if available, to select the
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output file format. If that variable is also absent, `ld' uses
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the default format configured for your machine in the BFD
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libraries.
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`NOCROSSREFS ( SECTION SECTION ... )'
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This command may be used to tell `ld' to issue an error about any
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references among certain sections.
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In certain types of programs, particularly on embedded systems,
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when one section is loaded into memory, another section will not
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be. Any direct references between the two sections would be
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errors. For example, it would be an error if code in one section
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called a function defined in the other section.
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The `NOCROSSREFS' command takes a list of section names. If `ld'
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detects any cross references between the sections, it reports an
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error and returns a non-zero exit status. The `NOCROSSREFS'
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command uses output section names, defined in the `SECTIONS'
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command. It does not use the names of input sections.
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File: ld.info, Node: Machine Dependent, Next: BFD, Prev: Commands, Up: Top
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Machine Dependent Features
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**************************
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`ld' has additional features on some platforms; the following
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sections describe them. Machines where `ld' has no additional
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functionality are not listed.
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* Menu:
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* H8/300:: `ld' and the H8/300
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* i960:: `ld' and the Intel 960 family
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File: ld.info, Node: H8/300, Next: i960, Up: Machine Dependent
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`ld' and the H8/300
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===================
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For the H8/300, `ld' can perform these global optimizations when you
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specify the `--relax' command-line option.
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*relaxing address modes*
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`ld' finds all `jsr' and `jmp' instructions whose targets are
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within eight bits, and turns them into eight-bit program-counter
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relative `bsr' and `bra' instructions, respectively.
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*synthesizing instructions*
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`ld' finds all `mov.b' instructions which use the sixteen-bit
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absolute address form, but refer to the top page of memory, and
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changes them to use the eight-bit address form. (That is: the
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linker turns `mov.b `@'AA:16' into `mov.b `@'AA:8' whenever the
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address AA is in the top page of memory).
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File: ld.info, Node: i960, Prev: H8/300, Up: Machine Dependent
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`ld' and the Intel 960 family
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=============================
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You can use the `-AARCHITECTURE' command line option to specify one
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of the two-letter names identifying members of the 960 family; the
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option specifies the desired output target, and warns of any
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incompatible instructions in the input files. It also modifies the
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linker's search strategy for archive libraries, to support the use of
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libraries specific to each particular architecture, by including in the
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search loop names suffixed with the string identifying the architecture.
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For example, if your `ld' command line included `-ACA' as well as
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`-ltry', the linker would look (in its built-in search paths, and in
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any paths you specify with `-L') for a library with the names
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try
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libtry.a
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tryca
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libtryca.a
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The first two possibilities would be considered in any event; the last
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two are due to the use of `-ACA'.
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You can meaningfully use `-A' more than once on a command line, since
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the 960 architecture family allows combination of target architectures;
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each use will add another pair of name variants to search for when `-l'
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specifies a library.
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`ld' supports the `--relax' option for the i960 family. If you
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specify `--relax', `ld' finds all `balx' and `calx' instructions whose
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targets are within 24 bits, and turns them into 24-bit program-counter
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relative `bal' and `cal' instructions, respectively. `ld' also turns
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`cal' instructions into `bal' instructions when it determines that the
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target subroutine is a leaf routine (that is, the target subroutine does
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not itself call any subroutines).
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File: ld.info, Node: BFD, Next: Reporting Bugs, Prev: Machine Dependent, Up: Top
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BFD
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***
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The linker accesses object and archive files using the BFD libraries.
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These libraries allow the linker to use the same routines to operate on
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object files whatever the object file format. A different object file
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format can be supported simply by creating a new BFD back end and adding
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it to the library. To conserve runtime memory, however, the linker and
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associated tools are usually configured to support only a subset of the
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object file formats available. You can use `objdump -i' (*note
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objdump: (binutils.info)objdump.) to list all the formats available for
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your configuration.
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As with most implementations, BFD is a compromise between several
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conflicting requirements. The major factor influencing BFD design was
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efficiency: any time used converting between formats is time which
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would not have been spent had BFD not been involved. This is partly
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offset by abstraction payback; since BFD simplifies applications and
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back ends, more time and care may be spent optimizing algorithms for a
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greater speed.
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One minor artifact of the BFD solution which you should bear in mind
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is the potential for information loss. There are two places where
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useful information can be lost using the BFD mechanism: during
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conversion and during output. *Note BFD information loss::.
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* Menu:
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* BFD outline:: How it works: an outline of BFD
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File: ld.info, Node: BFD outline, Up: BFD
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How it works: an outline of BFD
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===============================
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When an object file is opened, BFD subroutines automatically
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determine the format of the input object file. They then build a
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descriptor in memory with pointers to routines that will be used to
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access elements of the object file's data structures.
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As different information from the the object files is required, BFD
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reads from different sections of the file and processes them. For
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example, a very common operation for the linker is processing symbol
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tables. Each BFD back end provides a routine for converting between
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the object file's representation of symbols and an internal canonical
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format. When the linker asks for the symbol table of an object file, it
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calls through a memory pointer to the routine from the relevant BFD
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back end which reads and converts the table into a canonical form. The
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linker then operates upon the canonical form. When the link is finished
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and the linker writes the output file's symbol table, another BFD back
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end routine is called to take the newly created symbol table and
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convert it into the chosen output format.
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* Menu:
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* BFD information loss:: Information Loss
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* Canonical format:: The BFD canonical object-file format
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File: ld.info, Node: BFD information loss, Next: Canonical format, Up: BFD outline
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Information Loss
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----------------
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*Information can be lost during output.* The output formats
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supported by BFD do not provide identical facilities, and information
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which can be described in one form has nowhere to go in another format.
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One example of this is alignment information in `b.out'. There is
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nowhere in an `a.out' format file to store alignment information on the
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contained data, so when a file is linked from `b.out' and an `a.out'
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image is produced, alignment information will not propagate to the
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output file. (The linker will still use the alignment information
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internally, so the link is performed correctly).
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Another example is COFF section names. COFF files may contain an
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unlimited number of sections, each one with a textual section name. If
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the target of the link is a format which does not have many sections
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(e.g., `a.out') or has sections without names (e.g., the Oasys format),
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the link cannot be done simply. You can circumvent this problem by
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describing the desired input-to-output section mapping with the linker
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command language.
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*Information can be lost during canonicalization.* The BFD internal
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canonical form of the external formats is not exhaustive; there are
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structures in input formats for which there is no direct representation
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internally. This means that the BFD back ends cannot maintain all
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possible data richness through the transformation between external to
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internal and back to external formats.
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This limitation is only a problem when an application reads one
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format and writes another. Each BFD back end is responsible for
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maintaining as much data as possible, and the internal BFD canonical
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form has structures which are opaque to the BFD core, and exported only
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to the back ends. When a file is read in one format, the canonical form
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is generated for BFD and the application. At the same time, the back
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end saves away any information which may otherwise be lost. If the data
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is then written back in the same format, the back end routine will be
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able to use the canonical form provided by the BFD core as well as the
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information it prepared earlier. Since there is a great deal of
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commonality between back ends, there is no information lost when
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linking or copying big endian COFF to little endian COFF, or `a.out' to
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`b.out'. When a mixture of formats is linked, the information is only
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lost from the files whose format differs from the destination.
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File: ld.info, Node: Canonical format, Prev: BFD information loss, Up: BFD outline
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The BFD canonical object-file format
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------------------------------------
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The greatest potential for loss of information occurs when there is
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the least overlap between the information provided by the source
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format, that stored by the canonical format, and that needed by the
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destination format. A brief description of the canonical form may help
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you understand which kinds of data you can count on preserving across
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conversions.
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*files*
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Information stored on a per-file basis includes target machine
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architecture, particular implementation format type, a demand
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pageable bit, and a write protected bit. Information like Unix
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magic numbers is not stored here--only the magic numbers' meaning,
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so a `ZMAGIC' file would have both the demand pageable bit and the
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write protected text bit set. The byte order of the target is
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stored on a per-file basis, so that big- and little-endian object
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files may be used with one another.
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*sections*
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Each section in the input file contains the name of the section,
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the section's original address in the object file, size and
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alignment information, various flags, and pointers into other BFD
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data structures.
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*symbols*
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Each symbol contains a pointer to the information for the object
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file which originally defined it, its name, its value, and various
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flag bits. When a BFD back end reads in a symbol table, it
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relocates all symbols to make them relative to the base of the
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section where they were defined. Doing this ensures that each
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symbol points to its containing section. Each symbol also has a
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varying amount of hidden private data for the BFD back end. Since
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the symbol points to the original file, the private data format
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for that symbol is accessible. `ld' can operate on a collection
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of symbols of wildly different formats without problems.
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Normal global and simple local symbols are maintained on output,
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so an output file (no matter its format) will retain symbols
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pointing to functions and to global, static, and common variables.
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Some symbol information is not worth retaining; in `a.out', type
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information is stored in the symbol table as long symbol names.
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This information would be useless to most COFF debuggers; the
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linker has command line switches to allow users to throw it away.
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There is one word of type information within the symbol, so if the
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format supports symbol type information within symbols (for
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example, COFF, IEEE, Oasys) and the type is simple enough to fit
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within one word (nearly everything but aggregates), the
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information will be preserved.
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*relocation level*
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Each canonical BFD relocation record contains a pointer to the
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symbol to relocate to, the offset of the data to relocate, the
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section the data is in, and a pointer to a relocation type
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descriptor. Relocation is performed by passing messages through
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the relocation type descriptor and the symbol pointer. Therefore,
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relocations can be performed on output data using a relocation
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method that is only available in one of the input formats. For
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instance, Oasys provides a byte relocation format. A relocation
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record requesting this relocation type would point indirectly to a
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routine to perform this, so the relocation may be performed on a
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byte being written to a 68k COFF file, even though 68k COFF has no
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such relocation type.
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*line numbers*
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Object formats can contain, for debugging purposes, some form of
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mapping between symbols, source line numbers, and addresses in the
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output file. These addresses have to be relocated along with the
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symbol information. Each symbol with an associated list of line
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number records points to the first record of the list. The head
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of a line number list consists of a pointer to the symbol, which
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allows finding out the address of the function whose line number
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is being described. The rest of the list is made up of pairs:
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offsets into the section and line numbers. Any format which can
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simply derive this information can pass it successfully between
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formats (COFF, IEEE and Oasys).
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File: ld.info, Node: Reporting Bugs, Next: MRI, Prev: BFD, Up: Top
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Reporting Bugs
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**************
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Your bug reports play an essential role in making `ld' reliable.
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Reporting a bug may help you by bringing a solution to your problem,
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or it may not. But in any case the principal function of a bug report
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is to help the entire community by making the next version of `ld' work
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better. Bug reports are your contribution to the maintenance of `ld'.
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In order for a bug report to serve its purpose, you must include the
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information that enables us to fix the bug.
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* Menu:
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* Bug Criteria:: Have you found a bug?
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* Bug Reporting:: How to report bugs
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File: ld.info, Node: Bug Criteria, Next: Bug Reporting, Up: Reporting Bugs
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Have you found a bug?
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=====================
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If you are not sure whether you have found a bug, here are some
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guidelines:
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* If the linker gets a fatal signal, for any input whatever, that is
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a `ld' bug. Reliable linkers never crash.
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* If `ld' produces an error message for valid input, that is a bug.
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* If `ld' does not produce an error message for invalid input, that
|
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may be a bug. In the general case, the linker can not verify that
|
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object files are correct.
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|
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* If you are an experienced user of linkers, your suggestions for
|
||
improvement of `ld' are welcome in any case.
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File: ld.info, Node: Bug Reporting, Prev: Bug Criteria, Up: Reporting Bugs
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|
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How to report bugs
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==================
|
||
|
||
A number of companies and individuals offer support for GNU
|
||
products. If you obtained `ld' from a support organization, we
|
||
recommend you contact that organization first.
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||
|
||
You can find contact information for many support companies and
|
||
individuals in the file `etc/SERVICE' in the GNU Emacs distribution.
|
||
|
||
In any event, we also recommend that you send bug reports for `ld'
|
||
to `bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org'.
|
||
|
||
The fundamental principle of reporting bugs usefully is this:
|
||
*report all the facts*. If you are not sure whether to state a fact or
|
||
leave it out, state it!
|
||
|
||
Often people omit facts because they think they know what causes the
|
||
problem and assume that some details do not matter. Thus, you might
|
||
assume that the name of a symbol you use in an example does not matter.
|
||
Well, probably it does not, but one cannot be sure. Perhaps the bug is
|
||
a stray memory reference which happens to fetch from the location where
|
||
that name is stored in memory; perhaps, if the name were different, the
|
||
contents of that location would fool the linker into doing the right
|
||
thing despite the bug. Play it safe and give a specific, complete
|
||
example. That is the easiest thing for you to do, and the most helpful.
|
||
|
||
Keep in mind that the purpose of a bug report is to enable us to fix
|
||
the bug if it is new to us. Therefore, always write your bug reports
|
||
on the assumption that the bug has not been reported previously.
|
||
|
||
Sometimes people give a few sketchy facts and ask, "Does this ring a
|
||
bell?" Those bug reports are useless, and we urge everyone to *refuse
|
||
to respond to them* except to chide the sender to report bugs properly.
|
||
|
||
To enable us to fix the bug, you should include all these things:
|
||
|
||
* The version of `ld'. `ld' announces it if you start it with the
|
||
`--version' argument.
|
||
|
||
Without this, we will not know whether there is any point in
|
||
looking for the bug in the current version of `ld'.
|
||
|
||
* Any patches you may have applied to the `ld' source, including any
|
||
patches made to the `BFD' library.
|
||
|
||
* The type of machine you are using, and the operating system name
|
||
and version number.
|
||
|
||
* What compiler (and its version) was used to compile `ld'--e.g.
|
||
"`gcc-2.7'".
|
||
|
||
* The command arguments you gave the linker to link your example and
|
||
observe the bug. To guarantee you will not omit something
|
||
important, list them all. A copy of the Makefile (or the output
|
||
from make) is sufficient.
|
||
|
||
If we were to try to guess the arguments, we would probably guess
|
||
wrong and then we might not encounter the bug.
|
||
|
||
* A complete input file, or set of input files, that will reproduce
|
||
the bug. It is generally most helpful to send the actual object
|
||
files, uuencoded if necessary to get them through the mail system.
|
||
Making them available for anonymous FTP is not as good, but may
|
||
be the only reasonable choice for large object files.
|
||
|
||
If the source files were assembled using `gas' or compiled using
|
||
`gcc', then it may be OK to send the source files rather than the
|
||
object files. In this case, be sure to say exactly what version of
|
||
`gas' or `gcc' was used to produce the object files. Also say how
|
||
`gas' or `gcc' were configured.
|
||
|
||
* A description of what behavior you observe that you believe is
|
||
incorrect. For example, "It gets a fatal signal."
|
||
|
||
Of course, if the bug is that `ld' gets a fatal signal, then we
|
||
will certainly notice it. But if the bug is incorrect output, we
|
||
might not notice unless it is glaringly wrong. You might as well
|
||
not give us a chance to make a mistake.
|
||
|
||
Even if the problem you experience is a fatal signal, you should
|
||
still say so explicitly. Suppose something strange is going on,
|
||
such as, your copy of `ld' is out of synch, or you have
|
||
encountered a bug in the C library on your system. (This has
|
||
happened!) Your copy might crash and ours would not. If you told
|
||
us to expect a crash, then when ours fails to crash, we would know
|
||
that the bug was not happening for us. If you had not told us to
|
||
expect a crash, then we would not be able to draw any conclusion
|
||
from our observations.
|
||
|
||
* If you wish to suggest changes to the `ld' source, send us context
|
||
diffs, as generated by `diff' with the `-u', `-c', or `-p' option.
|
||
Always send diffs from the old file to the new file. If you even
|
||
discuss something in the `ld' source, refer to it by context, not
|
||
by line number.
|
||
|
||
The line numbers in our development sources will not match those
|
||
in your sources. Your line numbers would convey no useful
|
||
information to us.
|
||
|
||
Here are some things that are not necessary:
|
||
|
||
* A description of the envelope of the bug.
|
||
|
||
Often people who encounter a bug spend a lot of time investigating
|
||
which changes to the input file will make the bug go away and which
|
||
changes will not affect it.
|
||
|
||
This is often time consuming and not very useful, because the way
|
||
we will find the bug is by running a single example under the
|
||
debugger with breakpoints, not by pure deduction from a series of
|
||
examples. We recommend that you save your time for something else.
|
||
|
||
Of course, if you can find a simpler example to report *instead*
|
||
of the original one, that is a convenience for us. Errors in the
|
||
output will be easier to spot, running under the debugger will take
|
||
less time, and so on.
|
||
|
||
However, simplification is not vital; if you do not want to do
|
||
this, report the bug anyway and send us the entire test case you
|
||
used.
|
||
|
||
* A patch for the bug.
|
||
|
||
A patch for the bug does help us if it is a good one. But do not
|
||
omit the necessary information, such as the test case, on the
|
||
assumption that a patch is all we need. We might see problems
|
||
with your patch and decide to fix the problem another way, or we
|
||
might not understand it at all.
|
||
|
||
Sometimes with a program as complicated as `ld' it is very hard to
|
||
construct an example that will make the program follow a certain
|
||
path through the code. If you do not send us the example, we will
|
||
not be able to construct one, so we will not be able to verify
|
||
that the bug is fixed.
|
||
|
||
And if we cannot understand what bug you are trying to fix, or why
|
||
your patch should be an improvement, we will not install it. A
|
||
test case will help us to understand.
|
||
|
||
* A guess about what the bug is or what it depends on.
|
||
|
||
Such guesses are usually wrong. Even we cannot guess right about
|
||
such things without first using the debugger to find the facts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
File: ld.info, Node: MRI, Next: Index, Prev: Reporting Bugs, Up: Top
|
||
|
||
MRI Compatible Script Files
|
||
***************************
|
||
|
||
To aid users making the transition to GNU `ld' from the MRI linker,
|
||
`ld' can use MRI compatible linker scripts as an alternative to the
|
||
more general-purpose linker scripting language described in *Note
|
||
Command Language: Commands. MRI compatible linker scripts have a much
|
||
simpler command set than the scripting language otherwise used with
|
||
`ld'. GNU `ld' supports the most commonly used MRI linker commands;
|
||
these commands are described here.
|
||
|
||
In general, MRI scripts aren't of much use with the `a.out' object
|
||
file format, since it only has three sections and MRI scripts lack some
|
||
features to make use of them.
|
||
|
||
You can specify a file containing an MRI-compatible script using the
|
||
`-c' command-line option.
|
||
|
||
Each command in an MRI-compatible script occupies its own line; each
|
||
command line starts with the keyword that identifies the command (though
|
||
blank lines are also allowed for punctuation). If a line of an
|
||
MRI-compatible script begins with an unrecognized keyword, `ld' issues
|
||
a warning message, but continues processing the script.
|
||
|
||
Lines beginning with `*' are comments.
|
||
|
||
You can write these commands using all upper-case letters, or all
|
||
lower case; for example, `chip' is the same as `CHIP'. The following
|
||
list shows only the upper-case form of each command.
|
||
|
||
`ABSOLUTE SECNAME'
|
||
`ABSOLUTE SECNAME, SECNAME, ... SECNAME'
|
||
Normally, `ld' includes in the output file all sections from all
|
||
the input files. However, in an MRI-compatible script, you can
|
||
use the `ABSOLUTE' command to restrict the sections that will be
|
||
present in your output program. If the `ABSOLUTE' command is used
|
||
at all in a script, then only the sections named explicitly in
|
||
`ABSOLUTE' commands will appear in the linker output. You can
|
||
still use other input sections (whatever you select on the command
|
||
line, or using `LOAD') to resolve addresses in the output file.
|
||
|
||
`ALIAS OUT-SECNAME, IN-SECNAME'
|
||
Use this command to place the data from input section IN-SECNAME
|
||
in a section called OUT-SECNAME in the linker output file.
|
||
|
||
IN-SECNAME may be an integer.
|
||
|
||
`ALIGN SECNAME = EXPRESSION'
|
||
Align the section called SECNAME to EXPRESSION. The EXPRESSION
|
||
should be a power of two.
|
||
|
||
`BASE EXPRESSION'
|
||
Use the value of EXPRESSION as the lowest address (other than
|
||
absolute addresses) in the output file.
|
||
|
||
`CHIP EXPRESSION'
|
||
`CHIP EXPRESSION, EXPRESSION'
|
||
This command does nothing; it is accepted only for compatibility.
|
||
|
||
`END'
|
||
This command does nothing whatever; it's only accepted for
|
||
compatibility.
|
||
|
||
`FORMAT OUTPUT-FORMAT'
|
||
Similar to the `OUTPUT_FORMAT' command in the more general linker
|
||
language, but restricted to one of these output formats:
|
||
|
||
1. S-records, if OUTPUT-FORMAT is `S'
|
||
|
||
2. IEEE, if OUTPUT-FORMAT is `IEEE'
|
||
|
||
3. COFF (the `coff-m68k' variant in BFD), if OUTPUT-FORMAT is
|
||
`COFF'
|
||
|
||
`LIST ANYTHING...'
|
||
Print (to the standard output file) a link map, as produced by the
|
||
`ld' command-line option `-M'.
|
||
|
||
The keyword `LIST' may be followed by anything on the same line,
|
||
with no change in its effect.
|
||
|
||
`LOAD FILENAME'
|
||
`LOAD FILENAME, FILENAME, ... FILENAME'
|
||
Include one or more object file FILENAME in the link; this has the
|
||
same effect as specifying FILENAME directly on the `ld' command
|
||
line.
|
||
|
||
`NAME OUTPUT-NAME'
|
||
OUTPUT-NAME is the name for the program produced by `ld'; the
|
||
MRI-compatible command `NAME' is equivalent to the command-line
|
||
option `-o' or the general script language command `OUTPUT'.
|
||
|
||
`ORDER SECNAME, SECNAME, ... SECNAME'
|
||
`ORDER SECNAME SECNAME SECNAME'
|
||
Normally, `ld' orders the sections in its output file in the order
|
||
in which they first appear in the input files. In an
|
||
MRI-compatible script, you can override this ordering with the
|
||
`ORDER' command. The sections you list with `ORDER' will appear
|
||
first in your output file, in the order specified.
|
||
|
||
`PUBLIC NAME=EXPRESSION'
|
||
`PUBLIC NAME,EXPRESSION'
|
||
`PUBLIC NAME EXPRESSION'
|
||
Supply a value (EXPRESSION) for external symbol NAME used in the
|
||
linker input files.
|
||
|
||
`SECT SECNAME, EXPRESSION'
|
||
`SECT SECNAME=EXPRESSION'
|
||
`SECT SECNAME EXPRESSION'
|
||
You can use any of these three forms of the `SECT' command to
|
||
specify the start address (EXPRESSION) for section SECNAME. If
|
||
you have more than one `SECT' statement for the same SECNAME, only
|
||
the *first* sets the start address.
|
||
|