Re: [PING]: [PATCH] ld: Account for .tbss size on ARM EABI targets

On 2026-08-29 09:35, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 03:10:09PM +0200, Torbjorn SVENSSON wrote:
>>> Bare-metal ARM EABI programs allocate TLS storage directly, so if .tdata
>>> consumses VMA, then .tbss must also do so.  Otherwise, a following
>>> section such as .bss can overlap it.
> 
> In other words, the loader is broken for TLS.  Why break the linker as
> well?
> 

What loader?
I'm taking about bare-metal, i.e. there is nothing doing any loading.
The CPU is executing straight from flash without any ram copy of the
program or similar loader activities that normally exist on a pc.

Kind regards,
Torbjörn