[parisc-linux] A quick update

Cary Coutant cary@cup.hp.com
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:58:18 -0700


>The -N places the $DATA$ section after
>the $CODE$ section in low memory.  The +n option that was being used
>in the Makefile has the $DATA$ section in the 0x40000000 quadrant.  
>This is wrong for the kernel.

The opposite of -N is -n, not +n. The +n option tells the linker to 
search archive libraries iteratively, which I believe is needed for the 
Linux kernel.

The -N option tells the linker to build a "non-shareable" executable, so 
it puts text and data together in one segment. The -n option is the 
default, where shareable text is placed in the first quadrant and data is 
placed in the second quadrant.


Cary Coutant
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Application Delivery Lab