[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: Add .data/.rodata/.bss section starts to gd_t

Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Tue Feb 28 23:04:39 CET 2012


Hi Peter,

Le 27/02/2012 23:00, Peter Barada a écrit :
> When debugging u-boot, after relocation its tedious to calculate positions
> of the various sections (.data, .rodata, .bss).  To make it easier, add
> the structure "sections" to gd_t that contains the relocated start of
> those sections.  Then the gdb command "add-symbol-file" can by used with
> "-s<section>  <address>" that corresponds to the values in gd_t->sections.

NAK until I get an explanation and usage scenario for this, because I've 
never had to do calculations on sections so far, so I want to understand 
why it would be needed.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.


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