4.11 Branching To Do

[Chris Johns]

On 30/10/2014 10:49 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
>>> + Run-Time Loader merged and tested
>>
>> A patch has been posted but it needs at least a v2 before being merged.
>>
>> I need to add tests and this needs a tool to generate a suitable kernel
>>
>> symbol table. I am working on adding this to the rtems-syms tool in the
>>
>> rtems-tools repo. That part is ok but it has uncovered an issue with
>> the
>> RTL code living in librtemscpu.a. It seems the symbol table's object
>> file and the RTL in a library results in some strange dependency dance
>> where unresolved externals happen. It is proving difficult to track
>> down.
>
> I have faith you will resolve that before we get the other issues ironed out.
>

Found it. The rtems-tools ELF frame work was adding local ELF symbols to 
the global symbol table. I have fixed it and now the testsuite test for 
libdl passes.

Chris