<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-commits <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llvm-commits@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-commits@lists.llvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 01:33:16PM +0000, George Rimar via llvm-commits wrote:<br>
> "If there is no symbol named entry, the linker will try to parse entry<br>
> as a number, and use that as the entry address (the number will be<br>
> interpreted in base 10; you may use a leading 0x for base 16, or a leading 0 for base 8)."<br>
><br>
> But I doubt that it is a real usecase and not sure if it should be implemented or not ?<br>
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</span>In combination with linker scripts, it can make perfect sense. Many ELF<br>
kernel images are linked that way.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, we eventually need that. But that shouldn't be implemented in this patch and doesn't have to be supported now.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Joerg<br>
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