[parisc-linux] Today's boot experience on a 735

John David Anglin dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:48:51 -0500 (EST)


>   In message <199911170204.VAA11108@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>you write:
>   > experimentaion, I found that there isn't a sort key that will put the
>   > $AFTERDLT$ section after the $DLT$ section.  However, I think the following
>   > solution will do the job.  Try it out.  It might depend on linker version
>   > or who knows what else.
> There's always a way.
> 
> Create a .o file which contains a DLT & AFTERDLT section.  Make sure the
> DLT section appears first in the object file (I'm assuming they have the
> same sort keys).  Referece that .o first on the link line.

As I noted, it appears to work as is.  Do you know why the DLT section
disappeared when I used the sort key of 255 for AFTERDLT?  Although
I haven't tried it, it may not be possible to create an object file with
both DLT and AFTERDLT sections.

Dave