RE: [avrdude-dev] [task #5093] Add support for reading ELF files.

[Eric Weddington]

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> rg] On Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch
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> reading ELF files.
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> However, I'm completely against hardcoding section names from ELF
> files.  AVR Studio did that mistake before, and the result was that
> people could not debug their .bootloader sections.  Let's face it,
> people *do* invent their own section names, so we simply have to cope
> with it.  Eric, as little as you like it (I don't really like it
> either), these magic memory offsets are by now our only real
> distinction between different memory spaces of the AVR.  These offsets
> are simply required until the day the entire GNU toolchain has been
> taught to handle multiple target memory spaces without flattening them
> into a single large one (which I don't see any volunteer for so far).

Hmm. Can you explain your reasoning a bit more? I'm at a loss in
understanding why we cannot reserve certain section names in the ELF file.

Eric