On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Steve Woodford wrote:

: 1) Linking static binaries sometimes produces the following warning(s):
:
: /usr/libexec/ld: Warning: size of symbol `_<mumble>' changed from <N> to
: <n> in <objfile.o>
:
: Common values for `N' and `n' are `8' and `4' respectively. In such a
: case, the symbol in question really is 4 bytes long so quite why it's
: recorded as being 8 bytes long in the object file is beyond me. It doesn't
: appear to have any detrimental effect on the resulting binary...

Hm.  A test against binutils 2.10.1 might be in order.  This does sound
odd....

: 2) gnu/dist/ld/emulparams/m68kelf.sh defines TEXT_START_ADDR as 0x80000000.
:
: While not inherently evil, this seems bogus. (Although it did flush out a
: long-standing buglet in newfs(8) ;-)). Is there any reason not to change
: this to 0x2000 to match the a.out address?

Check the m68k ELF ABI supplement first.

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