Michael Brown
987b825b7f
[build] Fix building on mildly deranged versions of binutils
Some versions of binutils have curious concepts of what constitutes
subtraction. For example:
0x00000000000000f0 _text16_late = .
0x0000000000000898 _mtext16 = .
0x0000000000000898 _etext16 = .
0x0000000000000898 _text16_late_filesz = ABSOLUTE ((_mtext16 - _text16_late))
0x00000000000007a8 _text16_late_memsz = ABSOLUTE ((_etext16 - _text16_late))
This has interesting side-effects such as producing sizes for .bss
segments that are negative, causing the majority of addressable memory
to be zeroed out.
Fix by using the form
ABSOLUTE ( x ) - ABSOLUTE ( y )
rather than
ABSOLUTE ( x - y )
Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Tested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>