build/make: set the page size#503
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| // Configure the alignment size for the linker. This prevents the linker | ||
| // from assuming very large pages (i.e. 65536 bytes) and unnecessarily | ||
| // inserting additional padding into the output ELF. | ||
| println!("cargo:rustc-link-arg=-zmax-page-size=4096"); |
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Any reason not to include this in libtock_build_scripts::auto_layout?
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My thinking was users may want this but not auto_layout.
We could add it to the build-scripts crate.
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I feel think this is part of configuring the layout for a libtock-rs app, and therefore belongs in auto_layout.
Otherwise lld seems to assume 0x10000 sized pages and tries to align the output segments to 0x10000. This often causes elfs with large padding regions before the first segment we actually want to load on the board.
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Moved. I think when you spend too much time thinking about linkers it starts to change you and you start to think that others might also want to think about linkers but in reality they don't and I agree it's better to just fix this option for everyone and no one will ever notice or care. |
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Without setting this, lld seems to assume 0x10000 sized pages and tries to align the output segments to 0x10000. This often causes elfs with large padding regions before the first segment we actually want to load on the board.
See tock/elf2tab#75 for further discussion.