When I try to set priorities in certain programs, such as init_priority(HIGH_PRIORITY), I've noticed that during linking, there's no guarantee that the programs will be compiled in the sequence I've specified based on priority. This has led to some runtime errors in my program.
I realized that in the ld file, when initializing dynamic arrays, there's no assurance of initializing init_array.* before init_array. This has resulted in runtime errors in the program. Consequently, I've rearranged the init_array.* in the ld file of NuttX to be placed before init_array and added a SORT operation to init_array.* to ensure accurate initialization based on priorities during linking.
replace *(.init_array .init_array.*) with KEEP(*(.init_array .init_array.*)).
The KEEP statement within a linker script will instruct the linker to keep the specified section, even if no symbols inside it are referenced. This statement is used within the SECTIONS section of the linker script. This becomes relevant when garbage collection is performed at link time, enabled by passing the --gc-sections switch to the linker. The KEEP statement instructs the linker to use the specified section as a root node when creating a dependency graph, looking for unused sections. Essentially forcing the section to be marked as used.
Signed-off-by: cuiziwei <cuiziwei@xiaomi.com>
Gregory Nutt is the copyright holder for those files and he has submitted the
SGA as a result we can migrate the licenses to Apache.
Signed-off-by: Alin Jerpelea <alin.jerpelea@sony.com>
The ARMv7 specifies minimal alignment to be 8 for EABI. Ensure
that sections are placed with even greater minimal alignment.
Sections final alignment should be adjusted according
to alignment of their inputs, but for some reasons some
combinations lead to .ARM.exidx overlap with .data.
When alignment is increased then the direct fetch of the
fill location
_eronly = ABSOLUTE(.);
does not match with final LMA placement of the .data section.
Use constructs which should result in matching .data LMA
address for all cases
_eronly = ABSOLUTE(.);
Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <ppisa@pikron.com>
Squashed commit of the following:
Some scripts use TABs, others spaced. Make usage consistent.
Move __exidx_end assignment inside of brackets.
Remove old __exidx_end assignment.
Move __exidx_start assignment inside of brackets.
Remove old __exidx_start assignment
