[U-Boot] [PATCH] README.commands: Document what UNDEF_SYM does

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Wed Sep 19 23:17:35 CEST 2012


On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:09:56PM +0200, Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
> On 09/19/2012 01:42 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >+To ensure that the linker does not discard these symbols when linking
> >+full U-Boot we use generate a list of all of the commands and force the
> >+linker to first enter the symbol as undefined in the object so that
> >+there is then a need for the symbol to be kept (UNDEF_SYM in the
> >+Makefile).
> >+
> I have no idea what this is about, but my mind has difficulty parsing
> this sentence.
> 
> "To ensure that the linker does not discard these symbols when linking
> full U-Boot we use generate a list"
> 
> a generated list?

Bah, re-wrote the sentance a few times in my head as I was writing it.
... full U-Boot we geneate a list of all the commands we have built
(based on the sections mentioned above) and use that to force the linker
...

-- 
Tom
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