Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:00:08 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486 (revised) |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> .notes : { >> *(.note.*) >> . = ALIGN(4); >> LONG(0); >> LONG(0); >> LONG(0); >> } >> >> Am I missing something? > > Oh, I suppose, but I never much liked putting data-definition into the > linker script. >
I think it should be sparsely used, but stuff like simple end markers is pretty much what it's good for.
The main reason I want to avoid adding another header field is that the header is a finite resource; one of the many poor decisions in its original design was using a 2-byte jump at the top, so address 0x281 is the end of the universe.
-hpa
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