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40 >LW Tool Chain</TH
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56 >Chapter 4. LWLINK</TD
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77 >4.3. Linking Scripts</A
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78 ></H1
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79 ><P
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80 >A linker script is used to instruct the linker about how to assemble the
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81 various sections into a completed binary. It consists of a series of
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82 directives which are considered in the order they are encountered.</P
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83 ><P
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84 >The sections will appear in the resulting binary in the order they are
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85 specified in the script file. If a referenced section is not found, the linker will behave as though the
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86 section did exist but had a zero size, no relocations, and no exports.
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87 A section should only be referenced once. Any subsequent references will have
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88 an undefined effect.</P
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89 ><P
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90 >All numbers are in linking scripts are specified in hexadecimal. All directives
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91 are case sensitive although the hexadecimal numbers are not.</P
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92 ><P
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93 >A section name can be specified as a "*", then any section not
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94 already matched by the script will be matched. The "*" can be followed
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95 by a comma and a flag to narrow the section down slightly, also.
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96 If the flag is "!bss", then any section that is not flagged as a bss section
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97 will be matched. If the flag is "bss", then any section that is flagged as
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98 bss will be matched.</P
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99 ><P
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100 >The following directives are understood in a linker script.</P
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105 ><DL
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106 ><DT
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107 >section <CODE
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108 CLASS="PARAMETER"
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109 >name</CODE
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110 > load <CODE
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111 CLASS="PARAMETER"
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112 >addr</CODE
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115 ><P
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116 > This causes the section <CODE
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117 CLASS="PARAMETER"
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118 >name</CODE
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119 > to load at
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120 <CODE
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121 CLASS="PARAMETER"
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122 >addr</CODE
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123 >. For the raw target, only one "load at" entry is
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124 allowed for non-bss sections and it must be the first one. For raw targets,
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125 it affects the addresses the linker assigns to symbols but has no other
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126 affect on the output. bss sections may all have separate load addresses but
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127 since they will not appear in the binary anyway, this is okay.</P
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128 ><P
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129 >For the decb target, each "load" entry will cause a new "block" to be
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130 output to the binary which will contain the load address. It is legal for
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131 sections to overlap in this manner - the linker assumes the loader will sort
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132 everything out.</P
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135 >section <CODE
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138 ></DT
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139 ><DD
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140 ><P
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141 > This will cause the section <CODE
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142 CLASS="PARAMETER"
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143 >name</CODE
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144 > to load after the previously listed
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145 section.</P
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146 ></DD
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147 ><DT
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148 >exec <CODE
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149 CLASS="PARAMETER"
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150 >addr or sym</CODE
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151 ></DT
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153 ><P
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154 >This will cause the execution address (entry point) to be the address
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155 specified (in hex) or the specified symbol name. The symbol name must
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156 match a symbol that is exported by one of the object files being linked.
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157 This has no effect for targets that do not encode the entry point into the
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158 resulting file. If not specified, the entry point is assumed to be address 0
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159 which is probably not what you want. The default link scripts for targets
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160 that support this directive automatically starts at the beginning of the
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161 first section (usually "init" or "code") that is emitted in the binary.</P
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162 ></DD
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163 ><DT
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164 >pad <CODE
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170 >This will cause the output file to be padded with NUL bytes to be exactly
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171 <CODE
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173 >size</CODE
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174 > bytes in length. This only makes sense for a raw target.</P
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