From: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
To: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: Cupertino Miranda <Cupertino.Miranda@synopsys.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Claudiu Zissulescu <Claudiu.Zissulescu@synopsys.com>,
"linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARC: Explicitly specify OUTPUT_FORMAT in the linker script
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 16:43:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa3f7d80855306d96dcaea52f5dc2b783d5bceb1.camel@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <05b33c2b-6fb4-6a51-c52b-a0b1012a1000@synopsys.com>
Hi Vineet,
On Fri, 2018-06-01 at 09:12 -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 06/01/2018 03:49 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > It might be a good idea to explicitly specify BFD format
> > depending on -EB/-EL option passed to the linker and not rely on
> > default behavior as we have now.
>
> What exactly is the problem we are trying to solve here ?
> Is this preventive or did you run into something - if latter can u explain it here
> please ?
Right, this is preventive patch.
As Claus mentioned that's good to have this explicit information for BFD but
otherwise there's no clear requirement or even recommendation on OUTPUT_FORMAT
usage so that might not be needed.
-Alexey
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-01 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-01 10:49 Alexey Brodkin
2018-06-01 16:12 ` Vineet Gupta
2018-06-01 16:43 ` Alexey Brodkin [this message]
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