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Re: [XEN PATCH v6 05/31] build: factorise generation of the linker scripts


  • To: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:28:35 +0200
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On 12.07.2021 13:02, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 04:25:33PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 01.07.2021 16:09, Anthony PERARD wrote:
>>> In Arm and X86 makefile, generating the linker script is the same, so
>>> we can simply have both call the same macro.
>>>
>>> We need to add *.lds files into extra-y so that Rules.mk can find the
>>> .*.cmd dependency file and load it.
>>>
>>> Change made to the command line:
>>> - Use cpp_flags macro which simply filter -Wa,% options from $(a_flags).
>>> - Added -D__LINKER__ even it is only used by Arm's lds.
>>
>> I'm not really happy about this, not the least because the symbol's name
>> doesn't fit its purpose (we're not linking, but producing a linker script
>> at that stage), but well ...
> 
> Also, the leading "__" is probably a bad idea as I think it's reserved?

I guess that's intentional in this case, matching in particular
__ASSEMBLY__.

Jan




 


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