Re: Linker sections

[obair <nabble at rehill dot info>]

Ian Lance Taylor-3 wrote:
> 
> obair writes:
> 
>> I need to arrange code so that some functions appear at the start of the
>> image along with all the sections needed to run.  Briefly the idea is
>> that
>> the first few functions will reread the entire binary out of flash again
>> with error correction enabled.  The current loader does not provide error
>> correction and cannot be changed.  The minimum amount of code is going to
>> be
>> dependent on being read from flash by the loader.  The order of the
>> remainder of the objects is not important.  The sloe concern is that
>> nothing
>> executing in the first section (up as far as "_early_init_end") has any
>> dependency on anything after that point.
>>
>> Extract of linker script is below.  For now I'm just taking the relevant
>> sections of each object and bundling them together (so one object's .data
>> section is followed by the next object's .text section).  It's not ideal. 
>> What I'm trying to do is what is in the comment ("Shorthand") following
>> that
>> but it's not syntactically correct.  To do this would mean having 4
>> occurrences of each object (like in the "Longhand" comment).  Is there
>> some
>> way to group together files in the linker?  Is there another approach
>> more
>> suited to this use?
> 
> This question is more for the binutils@sourceware.org mailing list
> than the gcc-help mailing list.
> 
> I don't think there is any way to do what you want.  I think you can
> use wildcards in the file name, so you could do it if you can rename
> your files.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 

OK thanks, I'll try that list.

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